A 14-year-old girl admitted for corrective surgery for tetralogy of Fallot was found to have pulmonary arteriovenous malformations on pre-operative evaluation. In anticipation of a complicated postoperative course, percutaneous closure of the pulmonary arteriovenous malformations was undertaken first followed by a successful surgical outcome. Importance of this rare association and its clinical implication is hereby highlighted.
Raghav Bansal, Sachin Talwar, Sivasubramanian Ramakrishnan. Simultaneous cardiac and pulmonary central cyanosis in a young girl: the double trouble. Cardiology in the young. 2021 Mar;31(3):499-500
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