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Pulmonary hypertension due to a large acquired systemic arteriovenous fistula
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- Arteriovenous fistula
- pulmonary hypertension
- iatrogenic disease
- stents
- Marfan syndrome
- echocardiography
- heart failure
- myocardial ischaemia and infarction (IHD)
- interventional cardiology
- nuclear cardiology
- CT scanning
A 49-year-old female patient was referred for evaluation of pulmonary hypertension suspected to be caused by chronic thromboembolism. The patient had severe dyspnoea corresponding to WHO class III and leg oedema. Her symptoms started immediately after an operation for a lumbar spinal disc herniation 1 year earlier.
Echocardiography showed signs of pulmonary hypertension with …
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