Oral Propranolol in the Treatment of Ulcerated Bleeding Scrotal Arteriovenous Malformation

Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) of the scrotum are very rare, with only 35 adult cases in the literature. An 8-year-old boy presented with an ulcerated bleeding AVM of the scrotum. The patient was resuscitated and managed conservatively initially. After the control of bleeding, oral propranolol w...

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Autores principales: Singh, Gurmeet, Gupta, Archika, Gupta, Sarvesh Kumar, Rai, Rahul Kumar, Pandey, Anand, Kureel, S. N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7815032/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33487946
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_232_19
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author Singh, Gurmeet
Gupta, Archika
Gupta, Sarvesh Kumar
Rai, Rahul Kumar
Pandey, Anand
Kureel, S. N.
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description Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) of the scrotum are very rare, with only 35 adult cases in the literature. An 8-year-old boy presented with an ulcerated bleeding AVM of the scrotum. The patient was resuscitated and managed conservatively initially. After the control of bleeding, oral propranolol was started. There was a decrease in the size of scrotal and penile swelling, healing of ulcer with total healing by 1 month, and no recurrence of bleeding episode. To the best of our knowledge, this was the first case of pediatric scrotal AVM treated by oral propranolol.
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spelling pubmed-78150322021-01-22 Oral Propranolol in the Treatment of Ulcerated Bleeding Scrotal Arteriovenous Malformation Singh, Gurmeet Gupta, Archika Gupta, Sarvesh Kumar Rai, Rahul Kumar Pandey, Anand Kureel, S. N. J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) of the scrotum are very rare, with only 35 adult cases in the literature. An 8-year-old boy presented with an ulcerated bleeding AVM of the scrotum. The patient was resuscitated and managed conservatively initially. After the control of bleeding, oral propranolol was started. There was a decrease in the size of scrotal and penile swelling, healing of ulcer with total healing by 1 month, and no recurrence of bleeding episode. To the best of our knowledge, this was the first case of pediatric scrotal AVM treated by oral propranolol. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7815032/ /pubmed/33487946 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_232_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Singh, Gurmeet
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Kureel, S. N.
Oral Propranolol in the Treatment of Ulcerated Bleeding Scrotal Arteriovenous Malformation
title Oral Propranolol in the Treatment of Ulcerated Bleeding Scrotal Arteriovenous Malformation
title_full Oral Propranolol in the Treatment of Ulcerated Bleeding Scrotal Arteriovenous Malformation
title_fullStr Oral Propranolol in the Treatment of Ulcerated Bleeding Scrotal Arteriovenous Malformation
title_full_unstemmed Oral Propranolol in the Treatment of Ulcerated Bleeding Scrotal Arteriovenous Malformation
title_short Oral Propranolol in the Treatment of Ulcerated Bleeding Scrotal Arteriovenous Malformation
title_sort oral propranolol in the treatment of ulcerated bleeding scrotal arteriovenous malformation
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7815032/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33487946
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_232_19
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