Successful treatment of thalidomide for recurrent bleeding due to gastric angiodysplasia in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia

X.-Y. Wang, Y. Chen, Q. Du

Department of Gastroenterology, Second Affiliated Hospital of ZheJiang University College of Medicine, Hangzhou, ZheJiang Province, China. wangxy@medmail.com.cn

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• Gastroenterology

Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is an autosomal dominant disorder, which is uncommon anomaly to recurrent gastrointestinal bleeding. Although there are several forms of therapy ranging from local therapy to operations or drug therapy, there is a lack of more effective treatment for the disease. In this report, we presented a Chinese patient with recurrent melena due to gastric angiodysplasia in HHT treated successfully with thalidomide.

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