Cholecystectomy under thoracic epidural anaesthesia for patient with severe intra‐pulmonary shunt
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Agustina Frankel; Rebekah Ferris; Peter Hodgkinson; Claire M. Ellender
- Source
- Respirology Case Reports, Vol 8, Iss 3, Pp n/a-n/a (2020)
- Subject
- Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia
intra‐pulmonary shunt
pulmonary arteriovenous malformation
Diseases of the respiratory system
RC705-779
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2051-3380
Abstract Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations are common in patients with hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia and can be associated with significant hypoxia and intra‐pulmonary shunt. We present a case of a young man with a known 57% calculated shunt requiring abdominal surgery and the multidisciplinary decisions required in the preoperative period to minimize post‐operative complications.