PULMONARY ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION COMPLICATING COCCIDIOIDAL PNEUMONIA

Citation
Ra. Braun et al., PULMONARY ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION COMPLICATING COCCIDIOIDAL PNEUMONIA, The Annals of thoracic surgery, 60(2), 1995, pp. 454-457
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery
ISSN journal
00034975
Volume
60
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
454 - 457
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-4975(1995)60:2<454:PAMCCP>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
A patient was treated for lobar pneumonia due to coccidioidomycosis. W hen the pneumonia recurred, the patient was found to have an arteriove nous malformation, which had become infected. Complete resolution was achieved with resection and postoperative amphoterecin B therapy.