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MEDISAN
On-line version ISSN 1029-3019
Abstract
RODRIGUEZ YERO, Daymarelis; VERDECIA ROSES, Miguel Ernesto; PEREZ FUENTES, Iván and GONZALEZ BLANCO, Juan Carlos. Hemoptysis due to Rendu-Osler-Weber disease or hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia in a young patient. MEDISAN [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.5, pp. 724-727. ISSN 1029-3019.
The case report of a 20 years young patient is presented, with the diagnosis of moderate hemoptysis who was admitted in the Intensive Care Unit from "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso" Teaching General Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, where multiple tests were carried out whose results allowed to arrive to the definitive diagnosis of Rendu-Osler-Weber disease or hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. After the indication of other procedures, the patient had a satisfactory clinical course and he was discharged from the institution
Keywords : hemoptysis; Rendu-Osler-Weber disease; hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia; videobronchoscopy; arteriography.