Telangiectasia, Hereditary Hemorrhagic
"Telangiectasia, Hereditary Hemorrhagic" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An autosomal dominant vascular anomaly characterized by telangiectases of the skin and mucous membranes and by recurrent gastrointestinal bleeding. This disorder is caused by mutations of a gene (on chromosome 9q3) which encodes endoglin, a membrane glycoprotein that binds TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA.
| Descriptor ID |
D013683
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C14.907.454.900 C14.907.823.780 C15.378.463.515.900 C16.131.240.850.968
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| Concept/Terms |
Telangiectasia, Hereditary Hemorrhagic- Telangiectasia, Hereditary Hemorrhagic
- Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia, Hereditary
- Rendu-Osler-Weber
- Rendu Osler Weber
- Telangiectasia, Hereditary Hemorrhagic, of Rendu, Osler, and Weber
- Telangiectasia, Hereditary Hemorrhagic, Type 1
- Osler-Rendu Disease
- Osler Rendu Disease
- Osler-Rendu-Weber Disease
- Osler Rendu Weber Disease
- Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia
- Osler's Disease
- Disease, Osler's
- Osler Disease
- Osler-Weber-Rendu Syndrome
- Osler Weber Rendu Syndrome
- Weber-Osler
- Weber Osler
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Telangiectasia, Hereditary Hemorrhagic" by people in Profiles.
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Transcatheter closure of a pulmonary arteriovenous malformation in a patient with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. Cardiovasc Interv Ther. 2015 Jul; 30(3):270-2.
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Bevacizumab in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. N Engl J Med. 2009 May 14; 360(20):2143-4.