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Medica Jadertina, Vol. 39 No. 1-2, 2009.

Professional paper

Hereditary hemorrhagic teleangiectasis (Rendu-Osler-Weber Syndrome) as cause for stomach hemmorrhage - case report

Zvonimir Glumpak ; General Hospital Zabok, Department for internal medicine, Zabok, Croatia
Zlatko Mihaldinec ; General Hospital Zabok, Department for internal medicine, Zabok, Croatia
Anto Dominiković ; General Hospital Zabok, Department for internal medicine, Zabok, Croatia

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Abstract

This paper shows a 74-year-old patient with gastrointestinal bleeding and sideropenic anaemia as consequence of Rendu-Osler-Weber illness. The patient was gastroendoscopically positive on bleeding from angiodysplasias in the stomach. Bleeding stopped most robably spontaneously. The patient was treated with proton pump inhibitors.

Keywords

angiodysplasia; bleeding; aenemia; hematocrite; endoscopy; laser therapy; argon plasma coagulation

Hrčak ID:

37780

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/37780

Publication date:

1.6.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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