TY - JOUR T1 - Massive pulmonary arteriovenous malformation presenting with tamponading haemothorax JF - Thorax JO - Thorax SP - 836 LP - 836 DO - 10.1136/thx.2006.071852 VL - 62 IS - 9 AU - A A Khan AU - I Hunt AU - K Hamdane AU - J Tambiah AU - R P Deshpande AU - J F Reidy Y1 - 2007/09/01 UR - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/62/9/836.abstract N2 - A 71-year-old woman presented with a 1-week history of dyspnoea, right pleuritic chest pain and bilateral ankle oedema. There was no history of cough, fever or haemoptysis. Her body mass index was >30. Her jugular venous pressure was raised with reduced air entry over the right lung base. She was anaemic (haemoglobin 6.8 g/dl, mean corpuscular volume 67) with type II respiratory failure (pH 7.40, oxygen tension 9.30 kPa, carbon dioxide tension 9.32 kPa on 0.5 fraction of inspired oxygen). … ER -