ReviewCentral nervous system infections associated with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
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2014, Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious DiseasesBrain abscesses associated with right-to-left shunts in adults
2012, American Journal of the Medical SciencesCitation Excerpt :Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVM) also lead to right-to-left shunting of blood and may predispose people to development of brain abscesses.8–10 In 1 series, only 33% of patients who presented with brain abscesses associated with PAVMs had symptoms of PAVM before presentation with infection of the central nervous system.11 Most patients with PAVM have hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia,12,13 although variable presentation may lead to lack of recognition of the familial predisposition.14
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2012, Schmidek and Sweet Operative Neurosurgical Techniques: Indications, Methods, and Results: Sixth EditionAn unusual etiology of recurrent cerebral abscesses-a report of 3 cases
2009, Surgical NeurologyCitation Excerpt :Various neurological sequelae due to a variety of vascular, hemorrhagic, embolic, and infectious complications have been reported in 8% to 12% of all patients with HHT and up to 41% patients with pulmonary AV fistula [10,12]. The mechanisms of neurological complications in pulmonary AV fistula have been enumerated by Press and Ramsey [10] in their review. The right to left shunt in pulmonary AV fistula results in hypoxemia, which causes infarcts in brain.
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From the Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
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Dr. Ramsey is a Teaching and Research Scholar of the American College of Physicians.