HEREDITARY MULTIPLE TELANGIECTASIA

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Multiple hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, Osler's disease or Goldstein's heredofamilial angiomatosis, known and recognized for nearly thirty-five years as a definite clinical entity, has been studied carefully and exhaustively by a number of distinguished and well known medical writers. This interesting and obscure condition, always annoying, often disabling and disfiguring, sometimes fatal and quite frequently unrecognized and wrongly diagnosed, occurs in families in hereditary fashion, is transmitted by both sexes and affects both male and female. Sometimes these patients are seen first because of severe persistent and recurrent epistaxis; vaginal or uterine bleeding; hematuria that continues unexplained; hemoptysis not due to rheumatism, tuberculosis, mitral disease, aneurysm or purpura; gastric or rectal bleeding not due to ulcers, a malignant condition, hemophilia, leukemia or cirrhosis, sometimes because of severe or moderate anemia, and rarely because of many disfiguring "red spots" on the face and body, or intra-ocular,

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