RT Book, Section A1 Bissonnette, Bruno A1 Luginbuehl, Igor A1 Marciniak, Bruno A1 Dalens, Bernard J. SR Print(0) ID 58084325 T1 Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformation T2 Syndromes: Rapid Recognition and Perioperative Implications YR 2006 FD 2006 PB The McGraw-Hill Companies PP New York, NY SN 9780071354554 LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=58084325 RD 2024/03/28 AB Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformation (PAVM) is a direct communication between branches of the pulmonary arterial and venous vessels representing right-to-left shunting and therefore not participating in pulmonary gas exchange. Usually congenital (70% are associated with Osler-Rendu-Weber Disease), less commonly acquired (hepatic cirrhosis, mitral stenosis, trauma, actinomycosis, Fanconi Syndrome).