High-output cardiac failure secondary to high-output arteriovenous fistula: investigations, management and definitive treatment

1 patient, 32-year-old woman with end-stage renal failure, cadaveric renal transplant, and a proximal left radiocephalic arteriovenous fistula presenting with progressive dyspnoea and pulmonary hypertension.

Surgical ligation of the left radiocephalic arteriovenous fistula

Improvement in shortness of breath and resolution of pulmonary hypertension (reduction in pulmonary arterial systolic pressure)surrogate