PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Y-L Hsu AU - H-C Wang AU - P-C Yang TI - Desbaric air embolism during diving: an unusual complication of Osler-Weber-Rendu disease AID - 10.1136/bjsm.2002.004432 DP - 2004 Aug 01 TA - British Journal of Sports Medicine PG - e6--e6 VI - 38 IP - 4 4099 - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/38/4/e6.short 4100 - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/38/4/e6.full SO - Br J Sports Med2004 Aug 01; 38 AB - Cerebral manifestations of Osler-Weber-Rendu disease (OWRD, hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia) including telangiectases, venous malformations, and arteriovenous malformations, are usually under-recognised. The highest complication rate is observed in high flow cerebral arteriovenous malformations, which may present with headache, epilepsy, ischaemia, or haemorrhage. Cerebral air embolism during self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba) diving as the first manifestation of pulmonary arteriovenous malformation (PAVM) in OWRD patients has never been reported before. Here we report a 31 year old male who presented desbaric air embolism as the first manifestation of PAVM. As far as we know, this is the first such case published in English medical literature.