Liver disease and gastrointestinal bleeding in hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia – case report
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I Hereditary hemorrhagic telangectasia (HHT) or Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrome is characterized for fibromuscular dysplasia of the terminals vessels that propitiate the development of vascular ectasias and arteriovenous malformations. The mucosae, skin, lung and brain are the most commonly affected organs. This article describes a case of HHT an adult patient associated with multiple angiodysplasic injuries in the skin, nasal and oral mucosa, gastrointestinal tract, liver and thyroid, and who presents continuous blood loss in result of the severe gastric mucosal damage, demanding the replacement of erythrocytes concentrated in very short time intervals.
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