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Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia with Unusual Associations

We describe a report of an elderly lady who was hospitalized with progressive worsening of breathlessness and fatigue of one month's duration. Clinical evaluation of the patient revealed hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary hypertension without left heart...

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Autores principales: Jain, Dheeraj, Viswanathan, Stalin, Ramasamy, Chandramohan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4494561/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26180702
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.278
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description We describe a report of an elderly lady who was hospitalized with progressive worsening of breathlessness and fatigue of one month's duration. Clinical evaluation of the patient revealed hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary hypertension without left heart failure, and bilateral gluteal calcinosis cutis. Initially, CREST (calcinosis, Raynaud's phenomenon, esophageal dysmotility, sclerodactyly, and telangiectasia) syndrome was considered in view of the telangiectasia and calcinosis cutis, but a strong autosomal inheritance pattern and endoscopies (nasal and upper gastrointestinal) favored a diagnosis of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia with rare associations.
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spelling pubmed-44945612015-07-15 Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia with Unusual Associations Jain, Dheeraj Viswanathan, Stalin Ramasamy, Chandramohan Cureus Gastroenterology We describe a report of an elderly lady who was hospitalized with progressive worsening of breathlessness and fatigue of one month's duration. Clinical evaluation of the patient revealed hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary hypertension without left heart failure, and bilateral gluteal calcinosis cutis. Initially, CREST (calcinosis, Raynaud's phenomenon, esophageal dysmotility, sclerodactyly, and telangiectasia) syndrome was considered in view of the telangiectasia and calcinosis cutis, but a strong autosomal inheritance pattern and endoscopies (nasal and upper gastrointestinal) favored a diagnosis of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia with rare associations. Cureus 2015-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4494561/ /pubmed/26180702 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.278 Text en Copyright © 2015, Jain et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Jain, Dheeraj
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Ramasamy, Chandramohan
Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia with Unusual Associations
title Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia with Unusual Associations
title_full Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia with Unusual Associations
title_fullStr Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia with Unusual Associations
title_full_unstemmed Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia with Unusual Associations
title_short Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia with Unusual Associations
title_sort hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia with unusual associations
topic Gastroenterology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4494561/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26180702
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.278
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