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Osler, G.H.R., Recous, S., Fillery, I.R.P., Gauci, C.S., Zhu C. and Abbott, L.K. 2004. Correlation between mite community structure and gross N fluxes. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 36 191-194. 

Telangiectasias are collections of dilated capillaries that are usually of no clinical significance (Milandre et al. 1987). They may be associated with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (the Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome), but this is more likely to be associated with neurological complications from a pulmonary arteriovenous malformation with right-to-left shunting, such as cerebral hypoxia, brain abscess, paradoxical and septic embolism, or from an associated intracranial arteriovenous malformation or aneurysm (McDonald et al. 1998). 

McDonald MJ, Brophy BP, Kneebone C (1998). Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrome a current perspective on cerebral manifestations. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience 5 345-350... 

Hays, S.B., Camisa, C. Rendu-Osler-Weber-like telangiectasia associated with primary biliary cirrhosis. Cutis 1985 35 152-153... 

H. Osler-Weber-Rendu disease Visualizing portovenous shunting with three-dimensional sonography. Amer. J. Roentgenol. 2001 176 919-920... 

Weik, C., Greiner, L. The hver in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (Weber-Rendu-Osler disease). Scand. J. Gastroenterol. 1999 34 1241-1246... 

The Alchemies of Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton. In Rethinking the Scientific Revolution, ed. Margaret Osler. Cambridge, England Cambridge University Press, pp. 201-220. 

Osler, M. (1994), Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World. Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press,... 

Benign small bowel neoplasms are often associated with multi-organ syndromes such as Osler-Weber-Rendu (telangiectatic arteriovenous fistu-... 

Cancer treatment and septic shock Acute myocardial infarction Growth deficiency Hepatitis B vaccine Osler mrosis... 

Arteriovenous shunt Dieulafoy lesion Arteriovenous malformation and fistula Rendu-Weber-Osler (HTT) telangiectasia... 

Adegboyega PA, Yuoh G, Adesokan A (1996) Recurrent massive hemothorax in Rendu-Osler-Weber. South Med J 89 1193-1196... 

S.Begbie ME, Wallace GMF, Shovlin CL (2003) Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome) a view from the 21st century. Postgrad Med 79 18-24... 

Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (Rendu-Osler disease) is not associated with cerebral capillary telangiectasia, but with other forms of cerebral vascular malformations (Maher et al. 2001), mainly true pial arteriovenous malformations, dural arteriovenous malformations, and, rarely, cavernomas. 

AVMs typically present as solitary lesion. Multiple brain AVMs occur in approximately 0.3%-3.2% of all cases. Surprisingly enough, Willinsky et al. (1990) reported 11 cases of multiple AVMs among 203 patients (6%). Although multiple AVMs may occur spontaneously, they are frequently associated with cutaneous or extracranial vascular anomalies (Salcman et al. 1992), such as Rendu-Osler-Weber disease and Wyburn-Mason syndrome. However, the clinical mode of presentation, age and sex of the patient, and anatomic distribution of the lesions are the same as those in patients with single arteriovenous malformations. 

Rendu-Osler-Weber disease - also known as hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) - is a... 

Aberfeld DC, Rao KR (1981) Familial arteriovenous malformation of the brain. Neurology 31 184-186 Aesch B, Lioret E, deToffel B et al. (1991) Multiple cerebral angiomas and Rendu-Osler-Weber disease case report. Neurosurgery 29 599-602... 

Purdy PD, Batjer HH, Samson D et al. (1991b) Intra-arterial sodium amytal administration to guide pre-operative embolization of cerebral arteriovenous malformations. J Neurosurg Anesth 3 103-106 Putman CM, Chaloupka JC, Fulbright RK et al. (1996) Exceptional multiplicity of cerebral arteriovenous malformations associated with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome). AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 17 1733-1742... 

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