What is your approach to follow up after embolization of pulmonary AVM in patients with HHT?
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After closure of all PAVMs with feeding artery >2-3 mm diameter, I check a contrast echo (TCE) and CTA chest about 6 months later to assure that the AVM are still closed. Right-to-left shunt on TCE can be graded 0-3 using the system of Mager and colleagues. On CTA you are looking to see if all PA...
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Radiation Oncologist at Christus St Vincent Is there any role or literature on using SBRT for ...
3 months post-embolization, we repeat a CT scan.
If 3 months is good, the next scan will be in 2-3 years (depending on size and number of other PAVMs).
Then every 3-5 years thereafter.
Is there any role or literature on using SBRT for ...