S Yokogawa, A Hirayama, Y Ohishi, M Shimizu, S Hirota, S Adachi, M Sako, M Kohno
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Abstract
A forty-year-old woman who developed brain abscess was found to Rendu-Osler-weber syndrome with multiple arteriovenous fistulas of the left lung. Therapeutic embolization of pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas was performed for the prevention against brain abscess and improvement of hypoxia.