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Dyspnea with anemia turned out to be a case of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
Author(s) -
Amitabha Sengupta,
Sushmita Kaushik,
Debraj Jash,
Subir K. Banerjee
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
asian journal of transfusion science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.262
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1998-3565
pISSN - 0973-6247
DOI - 10.4103/0973-6247.106745
Subject(s) - telangiectasia , medicine , asymptomatic , anemia , presentation (obstetrics) , pathology , dermatology , surgery
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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