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The multiple systemic artery to pulmonary artery fistulas resulting in severe irreversible pulmonary arterial hypertension in patient with previous history of pneumothorax.

Wojciech JachecAndrzej TomasikMarcin KurzynaRadosław PieturaAdam TorbickiJan GłowackiEwa Nowalany-KozielskaCelina Wojciechowska
Published in: BMC pulmonary medicine (2019)
Non-congenital SA-PAFs are extremely rare, however, they should be excluded in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension and history of inflammatory or infectious disease of the lung and pleura, pneumothorax, cancer or Takayashu's disease and after chest trauma.
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