Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation closure in a preterm newborn
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Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation closure in a preterm newborn.
A 23-day-old preterm baby (1900 g) presenting with severe hypoxemia secondary to a large pulmonary arteriovenous malformation (PAVM), diagnosed by thoracic computed tomography (CT), was referred to our department. He was born at 32 weeks of gestation weighing 1945 g and, after birth, presented with severe hypoxemia (peripheral oxygen saturation [SpO2] 65%). The cardiac assessment was unremarkab...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0870-2551
DOI: 10.1016/j.repc.2016.12.017