Abstract:Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia is an autosomal dominant disease of blood vessels, affecting approximately 1 in 8000 individuals. It is characterized by mucocutaneous telangiectases, recurrent epistaxes, gastrointestinal bleeding, and arteriovenous malformations in the lungs, brain, and liver. Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia can be caused by mutations in either the endoglin gene or the
ALK1
gene, both of which encode proteins involved in serine‐threonine kinase signaling in … Show more
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