Pearls and pitfalls in the transesophageal echocardiographic diagnosis of patent foramen ovale

JK Song - Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•TTE with contrast study is being used for indirect diagnosis of PFO.•TEE affords
direct visualization of PFO with measurement of PFO size.•TEE also provides detailed …

Oral contraceptives and stroke: Foes or friends

V Reddy, M Wurtz, SH Patel, M McCarthy… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Incidents of strokes are increased in young women relative to young men, suggesting that
oral contraceptive (OC) use is one of the causes of stroke among young women. Long-term …

Whole genome sequences discriminate hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia phenotypes by non-HHT deleterious DNA variation

KE Joyce, E Onabanjo, S Brownlow, F Nur… - Blood …, 2022 - ashpublications.org
The abnormal vascular structures of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) often
cause severe anemia due to recurrent hemorrhage, but HHT causal genes do not predict the …

Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations may be the only clinical criterion present in genetically confirmed hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia

E Anderson, L Sharma, A Alsafi, CL Shovlin - Thorax, 2022 - thorax.bmj.com
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs) result in preventable complications
demanding specialty care. Underlying hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) can be …

Pathogenic variant frequencies in hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia support clinical evidence of protection from myocardial infarction

K Jain, SC McCarley, G Mukhtar, A Ferlin… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is a vascular dysplasia inherited as an
autosomal dominant trait, due to a single heterozygous loss-of-function variant, usually in …

MRI in the Evaluation of Cryptogenic Stroke and Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source

J Xiao, RA Poblete, A Lerner, PL Nguyen, JW Song… - Radiology, 2024 - pubs.rsna.org
Cryptogenic stroke refers to a stroke of undetermined etiology. It accounts for approximately
one-fifth of ischemic strokes and has a higher prevalence in younger patients. Embolic …

Unsupervised machine learning algorithms identify expected haemorrhage relationships but define unexplained coagulation profiles mapping to thrombotic …

G Mukhtar, CL Shovlin - EJHaem, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) can result in challenging anaemia and
thrombosis phenotypes. Clinical presentations of HHT vary for relatives with identical casual …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in the management of transient ischemic attacks

J Ortiz-Garcia, CR Gomez, MJ Schneck, J Biller - Faculty Reviews, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Transient ischemic attack (TIA) constitutes an important clinical condition, indicating the
presence of considerable risk for a subsequent ischemic stroke. Its prompt diagnosis and …

The bleeding diathesis in patients with hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia is not due to impaired platelet function

AL Lyster, SH Biørn, AD Kjeldsen, C Nielsen… - Orphanet Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Background Patients with the rare disease; Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT)
often bleed from telangiectatic lesions in mucosal surfaces. Studies suggest that impaired …

A missed case of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: A case report

J Zhang, G Pan, Y Zou, X Chen, J Pan… - … Open Medical Case …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia is a rare autosomal dominant disorder characterized
by abnormal blood vessel formation. When an abnormal vascular architecture affects the …