Chest wall systemic artery-to-pulmonary artery vascular malformation treated by embolization of feeders and drainers: A case report

Abstract

A 74-year-old woman presented with progressive dyspnea. Computed tomography revealed a large systemic artery-to-pulmonary artery vascular malformation (VM) on the right chest wall. Embolization of the VM was performed. First, the main drainers of the VM were retrogradely selected from the segmental pulmonary arteries and embolized using microcoils. Second, 2 main feeders of the VM were selected and embolized with N-butyl cyanoacrylate. Thus, marked flow reduction in the VM was achieved, and the patient's symptom improved dramatically. We believe that embolization of both feeders and drainers is an effective technique for treatment of a chest wall systemic artery-to-pulmonary artery VM.

Keywords

• Systemic artery-to-pulmonary artery vascular malformation
• Chest wall
• Embolization