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Unusual case of pulmonary hypertension.

Kolilekas L, Gallis P, Liasis N, Anagnostopoulos GK, Eleftheriadis I

Department of Respiratory Medicine, 251 Air Force and Veterans General Hospital, Athens, Greece. lykol@yahoo.gr

Truly reversible pulmonary hypertension is rare. Acquired systemic arteriovenous (A-V) fistulas following spinal surgery (laminectomy) are a less recognized cause of secondary pulmonary hypertension. We describe a patient who presented with symptoms and clinical evidence of pulmonary hypertension and underwent endovascular correction of an acquired A-V fistula, which led to improvement according to clinical and noninvasive hemodynamic criteria.

Published 1 March 2006 in Respiration, 73(1): 117-9.
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