Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia presenting as a recurrent epistaxis in an adolescent: A case report

BACKGROUND: Epistaxis can be an isolated finding or a manifestation of a systemic disease. Some of the potential etiologies are usage of anticoagulants, bleeding disorders, vascular aneurysms, nasal neoplasm, hypertension and nasal steroids. Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) as a cause of...

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Autores principales: Acharya, Ratna, Portwood, Katherin, Upadhyay, Kiran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7809591/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33511041
http://dx.doi.org/10.5409/wjcp.v10.i1.1
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author Acharya, Ratna
Portwood, Katherin
Upadhyay, Kiran
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description BACKGROUND: Epistaxis can be an isolated finding or a manifestation of a systemic disease. Some of the potential etiologies are usage of anticoagulants, bleeding disorders, vascular aneurysms, nasal neoplasm, hypertension and nasal steroids. Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) as a cause of recurrent epistaxis is uncommon. CASE SUMMARY: In this report, we describe an 18-year-old adolescent with recurrent epistaxis, mucocutaneous telangiectasia and family history of HHT, consistent with HHT. CONCLUSION: Timely diagnosis is needed not only to treat the epistaxis but also to be vigilant for other serious manifestations of this condition.
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spelling pubmed-78095912021-01-27 Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia presenting as a recurrent epistaxis in an adolescent: A case report Acharya, Ratna Portwood, Katherin Upadhyay, Kiran World J Clin Pediatr Case Report BACKGROUND: Epistaxis can be an isolated finding or a manifestation of a systemic disease. Some of the potential etiologies are usage of anticoagulants, bleeding disorders, vascular aneurysms, nasal neoplasm, hypertension and nasal steroids. Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) as a cause of recurrent epistaxis is uncommon. CASE SUMMARY: In this report, we describe an 18-year-old adolescent with recurrent epistaxis, mucocutaneous telangiectasia and family history of HHT, consistent with HHT. CONCLUSION: Timely diagnosis is needed not only to treat the epistaxis but also to be vigilant for other serious manifestations of this condition. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2021-01-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7809591/ /pubmed/33511041 http://dx.doi.org/10.5409/wjcp.v10.i1.1 Text en ©The Author(s) 2021. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial.
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Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia presenting as a recurrent epistaxis in an adolescent: A case report
title Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia presenting as a recurrent epistaxis in an adolescent: A case report
title_full Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia presenting as a recurrent epistaxis in an adolescent: A case report
title_fullStr Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia presenting as a recurrent epistaxis in an adolescent: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia presenting as a recurrent epistaxis in an adolescent: A case report
title_short Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia presenting as a recurrent epistaxis in an adolescent: A case report
title_sort hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia presenting as a recurrent epistaxis in an adolescent: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7809591/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33511041
http://dx.doi.org/10.5409/wjcp.v10.i1.1
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