[Liver hemangiomatosis in Osler's disease]

Dtsch Med Wochenschr. 1993 Jul 16;118(27-28):1015-9. doi: 10.1055/s-2008-1059420.
[Article in German]

Abstract

Heart failure occurred in a 50-year-old woman as a result of calcified haemangiomatosis of the liver with a high shunt volume. In the subsequent years there were several bleedings from peptic ulcers. Ultrasonography revealed an increase in liver size and the previously diagnosed calcification. 14 years later the patient was again hospitalized because of increasing weakness and stress dyspnoea; the haemoglobin level was 5.5 g/dl. In addition to the florid gastric and duodenal ulcers, angiodysplasias were for the first time demonstrated in the stomach, duodenum and sigmoid colon, as were telangiectasias in the face and echo-dense round foci in the spleen. After transfusion of red cell concentrates and healing of the peptic ulcers under a 14-day treatment with omeprazole (20 mg two times daily by mouth) and amoxycillin (750 mg three times daily by mouth) the haemoglobin level increased at first (10 g/dl), then tarry stools were once again noted. The condition stabilized after laser coagulation of all accessible gastrointestinal angiodysplasias. The isolated calcified hepatic haemangiomatosis, diagnosed 14 years previously, is most likely a rare variant of hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (Osler-Weber-Rendu disease).

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Calcinosis / diagnosis
  • Calcinosis / etiology
  • Chronic Disease
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Duodenal Ulcer / complications
  • Female
  • Heart Failure / diagnosis
  • Heart Failure / etiology
  • Hemangioma / complications
  • Hemangioma / diagnosis
  • Hemangioma / etiology*
  • Hepatomegaly / diagnosis
  • Hepatomegaly / etiology
  • Humans
  • Liver Diseases / diagnosis
  • Liver Diseases / etiology
  • Liver Neoplasms / complications
  • Liver Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Liver Neoplasms / etiology*
  • Middle Aged
  • Peptic Ulcer Hemorrhage / diagnosis
  • Peptic Ulcer Hemorrhage / etiology
  • Stomach Ulcer / complications
  • Telangiectasia, Hereditary Hemorrhagic / complications*
  • Telangiectasia, Hereditary Hemorrhagic / diagnosis