Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation as a cause of ischaemic stroke in the elderly.

BMJ Case Rep

Internal Medicine, SESARAM, Funchal, Portugal.

Published: October 2021

Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation (PAVM) is well recognised as a cause of paradoxical brain embolism. The authors report the case of an older woman with a medical history of arterial hypertension who was found unconscious and was discovered to have pulmonary thromboembolism and ischaemic stroke related to a PAVM.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8488706PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2021-245529DOI Listing

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