Aortic Runoff as a Sign of Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformation: Report of Two Cases

Back ground: Intracranial arteriovenous malformation rarely causes pulmonary hypertension and congestive heart failure in the newborn. Its diagnosis is challenging because cardiomegaly may suggest an intra-cardiac structural lesion. A 2- day -old male and 11-day-old female newborns with intracranial arteriovenous malformation and misdiagnosis of congenital heart disease are presented here. Precise echocardiography reveled the secondary signs of cranial arteriovenous malformation and had the major role in early diagnosis.