Abstract It is an autosomal dominant vascular disorder, which has a variety of clinical manifestations, with epistaxis being one of the most common. Many treatment options exist for epistaxis, but with no consensus on which is the method of choice. We describe the case of a patient with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) secondary epistaxis with septoplasty managed with synthetic hard ...

It is an autosomal dominant vascular disorder, which has a variety of clinical manifestations, with epistaxis being one of the most common. Many treatment options exist for epistaxis, but with no consensus on which is the method of choice. We describe the case of a patient with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) secondary epistaxis with septoplasty managed with synthetic hard graft, wh...

Familial epistaxis is often encountered by Otolaryngologists. Osier in 1901 described a triad of symptoms consisting of epistaxis, positive family history and multiple telangiectasia. Harrison (1957) regards this phenomena as 'rare' and Mc Caffrey et al. (1977) calls it unusual Multiple Telangiectasia, the cause of which is unknown, has a dominant familial trait. It may be very easily missed wh...

The syndrome of delayed epistaxis and monocular blindness following nonpenetrating head injury is reviewed. Bleeding results from rupture of a traumatic cavernous internal carotid artery aneurysm into the sphenoid sinus. There were 96 patients with this syndrome found in the literature and another four are added in this report. In 73% of the patients, the cause of the epistaxis was not apprecia...

Epistaxis occurs in approximately 60% of the general population. Every tenthperson requires treatment a hospital setting. all age groups,reaching its peak children around 10 years and adults 80years age. The frequency intensity epistaxis are anatomically based onnumerous vascular connections. cause most cases can bedetermined on basis detailed history physical examination. Thereare number treat...

Introduction. In case of thrombopenia and/or thrombopathy, epistaxes are very difficult to manage. Case Series. Two patients, one with a thrombocytopenia, the other with a thrombopathy, were hospitalized because of repeated active epistaxes after failure of packing. Both patients were successfully treated with an application of Surgiflo without side effects and left the hospital without recurre...

Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia also known as Osler-Rendu-Weber disease is a rare autosomal dominant disorder affecting small vessels of skin and mucosa, usually misdiagnosed because of its non specific symptomatology. This disease usually presents as epistaxis, gastrointestinal bleeding and visceral arteriovenous malformations. Although the epistaxis and gastrointestinal blood loss can ...