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gastrointestinal angioectasia
Epidemiology:
- up to 3% of general population
Clinical manifestations:
- generally asymptomatic
Complications:
- serious bleeding may occur
- may be due to acquired von Willebrand's disease
- selective loss of large vWF multimers (see Heyde syndrome)
Specific
gastric antral venous ectasia (GAVE)
Heyde syndrome
General
ectasia
vascular disease (vasculopathy)
gastrointestinal disease
References
- Hoog CM et al
Bleeding from gastrointestinal angioectasias is not related to
bleeding disorders - a case control study.
BMC Gastroenterology 2010, 10:113
PMID: 20920209
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-230X/10/113
- Bollinger E, Raines D, and Saitta P
Distribution of bleeding gastrointestinal angioectasias in a
Western population.
PMID: 23180943
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3501771/