Symptomatic liver involvement in neonatal hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. 2011

Suhail Al-Saleh, and Philip R John, and Michelle Letarte, and Marie E Faughnan, and Jaques Belik, and Felix Ratjen
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

High-flow hepatic vascular anomalies with arteriovenous shunting commonly manifest during the neonatal period with signs and symptoms of congestive heart failure, but to our knowledge, they have never been described in patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT). We report here our experience with 3 patients with hepatic arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) who presented with symptoms of high-output congestive heart failure during the neonatal period and were subsequently diagnosed with HHT. Imaging showed large hypervascular lesions and multiple hepatic arteriovenous shunts that differentiated these lesions from liver hemangiomas. Transcatheter embolization was performed in all cases. One infant died of sepsis shortly after embolization; follow-up at the age of 2.5 years of the surviving infants revealed involution of the vascular lesions and no evidence of symptom recurrence. We conclude that severe symptoms related to hepatic AVMs in HHT can occur in the neonatal period and that HHT should therefore be included in the differential diagnosis of symptomatic neonatal hepatic vascular malformations. Imaging plays a key role in differentiating hepatic AVMs from hemangiomas, because the latter require additional pharmacologic treatments. Early transcatheter embolization seems to be effective, but long-term outcomes still need to be assessed.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007231 Infant, Newborn An infant during the first 28 days after birth. Neonate,Newborns,Infants, Newborn,Neonates,Newborn,Newborn Infant,Newborn Infants
D008099 Liver A large lobed glandular organ in the abdomen of vertebrates that is responsible for detoxification, metabolism, synthesis and storage of various substances. Livers
D008107 Liver Diseases Pathological processes of the LIVER. Liver Dysfunction,Disease, Liver,Diseases, Liver,Dysfunction, Liver,Dysfunctions, Liver,Liver Disease,Liver Dysfunctions
D008297 Male Males
D003937 Diagnosis, Differential Determination of which one of two or more diseases or conditions a patient is suffering from by systematically comparing and contrasting results of diagnostic measures. Diagnoses, Differential,Differential Diagnoses,Differential Diagnosis
D004621 Embolization, Therapeutic A method of hemostasis utilizing various agents such as Gelfoam, silastic, metal, glass, or plastic pellets, autologous clot, fat, and muscle as emboli. It has been used in the treatment of spinal cord and INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS, renal arteriovenous fistulas, gastrointestinal bleeding, epistaxis, hypersplenism, certain highly vascular tumors, traumatic rupture of blood vessels, and control of operative hemorrhage. Embolotherapy,Therapeutic Embolization,Embolizations, Therapeutic,Embolotherapies,Therapeutic Embolizations
D005260 Female Females
D005500 Follow-Up Studies Studies in which individuals or populations are followed to assess the outcome of exposures, procedures, or effects of a characteristic, e.g., occurrence of disease. Followup Studies,Follow Up Studies,Follow-Up Study,Followup Study,Studies, Follow-Up,Studies, Followup,Study, Follow-Up,Study, Followup
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000792 Angiography Radiography of blood vessels after injection of a contrast medium. Arteriography,Angiogram,Angiograms,Angiographies,Arteriographies

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