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Table 4 Efficacy of Different Endovascular Embolization Materials in the Treatment of 72 PAVMs at 12 Months

From: Evaluation of percutaneous transcatheter embolization for pulmonary arteriovenous malformations

  Coils Plugs Coils and plugs combined
Reperfusion PAVMs 7 7 1
Occluded PAVMs 18 14 25
Total 25 21 26
  1. Likelihood-ratio chi-square test showed significant differences between the three groups (X2 = 8.8321; p = 0.0121). The bootstrap method revealed no significant difference in the recurrence rate between the coil group and the plug group. However, there were significant differences between those two groups and the combined group
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BMC Pulmonary Medicine

ISSN: 1471-2466

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