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Dyspnea with anemia turned out to be a case of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia

Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is a rare autosomal dominant inherited disorder of the vascular system. It can be asymptomatic but when symptomatic most common presentation being epistaxis. It can involve any organs of the body like lungs, skin, liver brain, GI mucosa etc. We are reporti...

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Autores principales: Sengupta, Amitabha, Saha, Kaushik, Jash, Debraj, Banerjee, Sourindra N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3613670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23559772
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-6247.106745
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author Sengupta, Amitabha
Saha, Kaushik
Jash, Debraj
Banerjee, Sourindra N.
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description Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is a rare autosomal dominant inherited disorder of the vascular system. It can be asymptomatic but when symptomatic most common presentation being epistaxis. It can involve any organs of the body like lungs, skin, liver brain, GI mucosa etc. We are reporting a case of HHT presented to us with dyspnea and severe anemia. He had arteriovenous malformations of different visceral organs and telangiectasia of skin along with presence of similar history in first-degree relatives.
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spelling pubmed-36136702013-04-04 Dyspnea with anemia turned out to be a case of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia Sengupta, Amitabha Saha, Kaushik Jash, Debraj Banerjee, Sourindra N. Asian J Transfus Sci Case Report Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is a rare autosomal dominant inherited disorder of the vascular system. It can be asymptomatic but when symptomatic most common presentation being epistaxis. It can involve any organs of the body like lungs, skin, liver brain, GI mucosa etc. We are reporting a case of HHT presented to us with dyspnea and severe anemia. He had arteriovenous malformations of different visceral organs and telangiectasia of skin along with presence of similar history in first-degree relatives. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3613670/ /pubmed/23559772 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-6247.106745 Text en Copyright: © Asian Journal of Transfusion Science http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sengupta, Amitabha
Saha, Kaushik
Jash, Debraj
Banerjee, Sourindra N.
Dyspnea with anemia turned out to be a case of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
title Dyspnea with anemia turned out to be a case of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
title_full Dyspnea with anemia turned out to be a case of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
title_fullStr Dyspnea with anemia turned out to be a case of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
title_full_unstemmed Dyspnea with anemia turned out to be a case of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
title_short Dyspnea with anemia turned out to be a case of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
title_sort dyspnea with anemia turned out to be a case of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3613670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23559772
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-6247.106745
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