Liver involvement in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: CT and clinical findings do not correlate in symptomatic patients.
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of our study was to report the multiphasic CT findings in patients with symptomatic liver involvement by hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) and to correlate the CT findings with the type of clinical presentation.


CONCLUSIONS
Patients with symptomatic HHT liver disease have diffuse hepatic telangiectases, a dilated common hepatic artery, and a high incidence of biliary abnormalities. Multiphasic CT is useful in diagnosing liver involvement due to HHT; however, no strong correlation was seen between CT findings and the clinical subtype of HHT liver disease.
Wu
Jim S
JS
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, USA.
Saluja
Sanjay
S
Garcia-Tsao
Guadalupe
G
Chong
Alice
A
Henderson
Katherine J
KJ
White
Robert I
RI
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000792:Angiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000098:blood supply; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013683:Telangiectasia, Hereditary Hemorrhagic / Q000150:complications*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed