High out-put congestive heart failure as first manifestation of Osler-Weber-Rendu disease

Angiology. 1984 Sep;35(9):568-76. doi: 10.1177/000331978403500904.

Abstract

We present two cases of hemorrhagic hereditary telangiectasia (HHT) or Osler-Weber-Rendu disease which started as heart failure. Both had multiple arteriovenous fistulas, one of them in a rare localization in this disease, a lower extremity. We conclude stressing the importance of thinking of HHT in the presence of obscure heart failure or arteriovenous fistulas and of looking for internal fistulas when faced by a HHT.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Arteriovenous Fistula / complications
  • Cardiac Output*
  • Female
  • Heart Auscultation
  • Heart Failure / complications*
  • Humans
  • Leg / blood supply
  • Liver / blood supply
  • Lung / blood supply
  • Middle Aged
  • Telangiectasia, Hereditary Hemorrhagic / etiology*