HHT; Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome; Osler-Weber-Rendu disease; Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrome. Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is an inherited disorder of the blood vessels that can cause excessive bleeding. Blood used by the body is brought back to the heart and lungs by the veins of the body.
ICD-10 code I78. 0 for Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Diseases of the circulatory system .
HHT is a disorder in which some blood vessels do not develop properly. A person with HHT may form blood vessels without the capillaries (tiny blood vessels that pass blood from arteries to veins) that are usually present between arteries and veins.
HHT is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern. In rare cases, the disorder occurs randomly as the result of a spontaneous genetic change (i.e., new mutation). All relatives affected in a family with HHT will have the same mutation.
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Scleroderma. Telangiectasias occur in patients who have both types of scleroderma: Limited scleroderma – also called CREST syndrome, which stands for Calcinosis, Raynaud's phenomenon, Esophageal dysmotility, Sclerosis and Telangiectasia.
Summary. HHT is a genetic disorder associated with small AVM (telangiectases) of the skin, nose, and GI tract, and larger AVM of the brain, lung or liver. The AVM in the lung and brain are treatable but because AVM can continue to grow/enlarge, patients need careful and continued monitoring.
Telangiectasia is a condition in which broken or widened small blood vessels that sit near the surface of the skin or mucous membranes create visible patterns of lines. For most people, these patterns, or telangiectases, neither cause any damage to overall health and nor require treatment.
Our data demonstrate that patients with HHT have a poorer survival compared with controls. Median age at death was 77 years in cases with HHT compared with 80 years in controls, a decrease of 3 years.
In HHT, an error in your genetic blueprints causes you to produce a single defective protein. That defective protein leads to the development of abnormal blood vessels. If you do not inherit the gene, you will not get HHT.
HHT is an autosomal dominant (it does not skip a generation), genetic blood vessel disorder that causes bleeding in multiple organs of the body.