Table 3.

Notable therapeutic intervention and complications of patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia undergoing general anesthesia

Perioperative blood transfusions
Procedures for epistaxis	Septodermoplasty (7) Nasal cauterization (3) Miscellaneous procedures to nasal mucosa (2)
Other procedures	Cardiac (5) Liver transplant (2) Major general surgeries (3) Orthopedic surgery for septic arthritis (3)
Intensive care unit admission
Procedures for epistaxis	Septodermoplasty in a patient with severe pulmonary hypertension for observation (2) Septodermoplasty in a patient with severe pulmonary hypertension and 1-l blood loss Nasal cauterization in a patient with severe pulmonary hypertension and hypoxic respiratory failure from right middle and lower lobe consolidation.
Other procedures	Cardiac (6) Liver transplant (4) Major general surgeries (5) Thoracic (2) Interventional radiology (3) Tracheostomy (1) Neurosurgical (1)
Postoperative complications
Epistasis following nonnasal procedures	Epistaxis noted postoperative day 6 following general surgery. Required transfusion of 11 units of packed red cells and coiling of a nasal arteriovenous malformation Epistaxis noted postoperative day 6 following mitral valve repair. Treated with pressure and topical phenylephrine
Neurological deficits	Self-limited expressive aphasia manifested 3 days after coiling of complex left cortical pial arteriovenous fistula A coil deployed to a pulmonary arteriovenous malformation migrated to the main middle cerebral artery. It was immediately retrieved by a snare and the patient treated with heparin and tissue plasminogen activator. Complicated by transient hemiparesis
Other	Pulmonary infarction secondary to coiling of pulmonary arteriovenous malformation