Severe Recurrent Epistaxis - The Main Symptom of Hereditary Haemorrhagic Teleangiectasia
Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), also known as Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrome, is of dominant autosomal inheritance. Pathologic changes of vascular walls cause recurrent episodes of bleeding from many organ systems. Recurrent epistaxis is the first and the most frequent symptom of HHT. The...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2018-12-01
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Series: | Acta Medica Martiniana |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/acm-2018-0016 |