| Anesthetic Experience of Extrathoracic Surgery in Rendu-Osler-Weber Syndrome. |
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Ik Sang Seung, Kyo Sang Kim |
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Department of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. sisang@hanyang.ac.kr |
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| Abstract |
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The Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrome (hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia) is an autosomal dominant disorder of blood vessels associated with mucocutaneous telangiectasis and arterivenous malformations in several organs. A pulmonary arteriovenous fistulae can cause hypoxemia, hemoptysis, polycythemia and clubbing. However the condition is often not recognized until the 3rd decade of life. The authors report a case of a 28-year-old male patient who had been suffering from telangiectasis of the upper lip and upper portion of the chin and unexpedly became undersaturated of hemoglobin through general anesthesia during an operation of the upper lip lesion. |
| Key Words:
Arteriovenous fistula; Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrome; telangiectasia |
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