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Case Reports

Aortic Valve Replacement in a Patient With Osler-Rendu-Weber Disease

^a Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit, Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
^b Department of Cardiology, Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
^c Department of Hematology, Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
^d Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Accepted for publication February 6, 2009.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Benzadón, Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires, Blanco Encalada 1543, Buenos Aires, C1428DCO, Argentina (Email: marianobenzadon{at}yahoo.com.ar).

Osler-Rendu-Weber (hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia) disease is an uncommon disease characterized by the presence of abnormal telangiectasias and arteriovenous malformations that cause recurrent episodes of bleeding. We present a patient with Osler-Rendu-Weber disease, with a history of multiple major bleeding events and severe aortic valve stenosis, who underwent aortic valve replacement. Unexpectedly, the postoperative course was uneventful, and there was no untoward bleeding in the early or in the late postoperative follow-up.