Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8718258 | Apollo Medicine | 2017 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
The development of venous collaterals is a sine quo non of a number of diverse clinical entities. Of them, the systemic-to-pulmonary venous collaterals are rather uncommon. These collaterals, though essentially owe their birth to a complete superior vena cava obstruction, may be of diverse kinds. Categorized traditionally into anatomical, congenital or acquired varieties, they produce a right-to-left shunt and leave the patient susceptible to embolic stroke, brain abscess and a high cardiac output state.1 Among these uncommon shunts, the rarest is the acquired kind. We present a case of a 90-year-old female with lung malignancy, who developed such an acquired shunt. A robust knowledge of such an event is critical from the perspective of understanding potential complications and taking timely steps to mitigate them.
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Authors
Geetika Rastogi, Meenu Amar, Yatish Agarwal, N.S. Negi,