Hemorrhagic Hereditary Telangiectasia (Rendu-Osler Disease) and Infectious Diseases: An Underestimated Association
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Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT, Osler–Weber–Rendu disease) — Symptoms and Diagnosis
Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) or Osler-Weber-Rendu-Disease (OWRD) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder that affects blood vessels and consequently multiple systems resulting in a tendency to bleed. Also known as vascular dysplasia, the condition is more or less diagnosed clinically and has a variable prognosis depending on prompt recognition and severity. However, there is no cur...
متن کامل[Ophthalmologic diagnosis of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia or Rendu-Osler-Weber disease].
CASE REPORT Our patient was a 45-year-old woman who had recurrent episodes of hematic epiphora, repeated epistaxes for which no cause was found and a family history of gastric hemorrhage. One of her daughters also suffered from spontaneous hemorrhages. DISCUSSION Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia is rarely diagnosed by an ophthalmologist; however the occurrence of bloody tears occurring s...
متن کاملHereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT, Osler–Weber–Rendu disease) — Symptoms and Diagnosis
Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) or Osler-Weber-Rendu-Disease (OWRD) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder that affects blood vessels and consequently multiple systems resulting in a tendency to bleed. Also known as vascular dysplasia, the condition is more or less diagnosed clinically and has a variable prognosis depending on prompt recognition and severity. However, there is no cur...
متن کاملIntracranial hemorrhage in infants and children with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome).
OBJECTIVE Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is an autosomal dominant vascular dysplasia. Most cases are caused by mutations in the endoglin gene on chromosome 9 (HHT type 1) or the activin receptor-like kinase 1 gene on chromosome 12 (HHT type 2), which leads to telangiectases and arteriovenous malformations (AVM) of the skin, mucosa, and viscera. Epistaxis is the most frequent presen...
متن کاملExceptional multiplicity of cerebral arteriovenous malformations associated with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome).
PURPOSE To describe the clinical and imaging features of seven patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia and an exceptional number of cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). METHODS One hundred thirty-six patients from a dedicated hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia clinic were screened systematically for cerebral AVMs by means of MR imaging. Thirty-one were found to have abn...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1086/511645