hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia

A vascular disease characterized by the presence of multiple arteriovenous malformations that lack intervening capillaries and result in direct connections between arteries and veins.

Signs and symptoms

• Telangiectasia
• Telangiectasia of the skin
• Spontaneous, recurrent epistaxis
• Hemoptysis
• Dyspnea
• Facial telangiectasia
• Palmar telangiectasia
• Oral cavity telangiectasia
• Gastrointestinal telangiectasia
• Right-to-left shunt

Also known as: Osler hemorrhagic telangiectasia syndrome; Osler-Weber-Rendu disease; Rendu-Osler-Weber disease