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Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: report of 15 affected cases in a Mexican family.
Clinical genetics - 1 Mar 1991
Guillén B, Guízar J, de la Cruz J, Salamanca F
Abstract excerpt
We report a Mexican family with 15 members affected with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), all of them suffering from severe hemorrhagic episodes treated with multiple blood transfusions; one patient had a cerebral arteriovenous fistula that required surgical treatment and two others had severe cirrhosis of the liver. Clinical findings in this family illustrate the variable expressivity in HHT, which...
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