Total pneumonectomy as a salvage procedure for pulmonary arteriovenous malformation in a newborn: report of one case.

Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations are infrequent lesions diagnosed rarely in the neonatal period. A case of arteriovenous malformation involving an entire lung in a newborn is described. Because of an untractable cyanosis with heart failure, an emergency left total pneumonectomy had to be done at 18 hours of life. Cyanosis disappear immediately, and the newborn recovered normal cardiac function.

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