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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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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. |
spellingShingle | Case Report 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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