Epistaxis in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: an evidence based review of surgical management

Patients with Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) frequently present with epistaxis. Up to 98 % of these patients will have epistaxis at some point in their life. There are multiple ways to deal with this problem, including conservative, medical and surgical options. We present a case and an...

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Autores principales: Chin, Christopher J., Rotenberg, Brian W., Witterick, Ian J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4709944/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26754744
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40463-016-0116-8
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description Patients with Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) frequently present with epistaxis. Up to 98 % of these patients will have epistaxis at some point in their life. There are multiple ways to deal with this problem, including conservative, medical and surgical options. We present a case and an update on the treatment options for HHT, with a focus on the newer and experimental techniques. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40463-016-0116-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-47099442016-01-13 Epistaxis in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: an evidence based review of surgical management Chin, Christopher J. Rotenberg, Brian W. Witterick, Ian J. J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg Review Patients with Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) frequently present with epistaxis. Up to 98 % of these patients will have epistaxis at some point in their life. There are multiple ways to deal with this problem, including conservative, medical and surgical options. We present a case and an update on the treatment options for HHT, with a focus on the newer and experimental techniques. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40463-016-0116-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2016-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4709944/ /pubmed/26754744 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40463-016-0116-8 Text en © Chin et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_fullStr Epistaxis in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: an evidence based review of surgical management
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title_short Epistaxis in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: an evidence based review of surgical management
title_sort epistaxis in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: an evidence based review of surgical management
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