Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT): Negotiating between the Scylla of bleeding and Charybdis of thrombosis

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 162-164

  Ghosh, Kanjaksha ^a,b   Ghosh, Kinjalka ^a  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOHAEMATOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8; ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; TRANEXAMIC ACID; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPISTAXIS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENDU OSLER WEBER DISEASE; THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; COLECTOMY; COLOSTOMY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; EPISTAXIS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTATIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; TELANGIECTASIA, HEREDITARY HEMORRHAGIC; TRANEXAMIC ACID; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 46749152553     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1160/TH08-01-0044     Document Type: Letter

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