title: [Intestinal angiodysplasia as a cause of severe intestinal hemorrhage--report of 4 cases].
abstract: Angiodysplasia of the small intestine alone cannot be differentiated histologically from hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (Morbus Rendu-Osler-Weber). Isolated localisation in the small intestine is rare and requires surgery in the event of massive bleeding. Four cases of bleeding from angiodysplasias of the small intestine in patients having undergone surgery at our institution over a ten-year period are presented. In three patients the particular intestine was resected. Two of these patients had an uneventful follow-up of even and ten years, one patient relapsed and was rehospitalized for surgical treatment. The fourth patient, who showed angiodysplasias scattered over the entire small intestine, had no further bleeding over a three-year period after transmural ligations of the lesions found by intraoperative endoscopical diaphany.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgische Universitäts-Klinik, Universität Innsbruck.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sandbichler
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pernthaler
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schmid
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ofner
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Aigner
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tötsch
authors.forename: K W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Schmid
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001165:Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007082:Ileum / Q000098:blood supply*; D007583:Jejunum / Q000098:blood supply*; D008297:Male
vernacular_title: Intestinale Angiodysplasie als Ursache schwerer Dünndarmblutungen--Bericht über vier Fälle.