Table 2.
Clinical Manifestations |
Prevalence (%) | Comments |
---|---|---|
Epistaxis | 90–95 | Most limiting symptom for patients. |
Telangiectasias | 95 | It can produce recurrent bleeding in the bearing areas of the body or those in contact with external surfaces such as the fingertips. |
Anemia | 50 | It is associated with asthenia and chronic fatigue. |
Pulmonary AVMs | 15–50 | Chronic hypoxaemia is only present in case of large pulmonary AVMs. Prevalence 10–20% in HT-II, 60% in HHT-I. |
Hepatic AVMs | 47–74 | Three different types. Depending on their predominance, they increase the risk of HOHF, portal hypertension, hepatic encephalopathy, biliary ischemia, mesenteric ischemia, and hepatic cirrhosis. |
Cerebral AVMs | 2–20 | Nonspecific symptoms (headaches or seizures) |
Digestive AVMs | 13–30 | AVMs predominate in the stomach and duodenum. |
Pulmonary hypertension | 1–5 | Can be caused by different mechanisms including hereditary group 1 PAH, or due to high cardiac output in the setting of liver AVMs (mostly associated with ACVRL1 mutation). |
AVMs, arteriovenous malformation; HOHF, high output heart failure; PAH, pulmonary arterial hypertension.