An analysis of sex differences in pulmonary arteriovenous malformation presentation, complications and management in a large, multinational registry of patients with hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia

Eliza Tuff-Gordon; Marie E Faughnan; Helen Kim; Michael T Lawton; Nicholas T Vozoris; Brain Vascular Malformation Consortium HHT Investigator Group; Brain Vascular Malformation Consortium HHT Investigator Group

doi:10.1183/23120541.00751-2022

An analysis of sex differences in pulmonary arteriovenous malformation presentation, complications and management in a large, multinational registry of patients with hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia

ERJ Open Res. 2023 May 22;9(3):00751-2022. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00751-2022. eCollection 2023 May.

Authors

Eliza Tuff-Gordon¹, Marie E Faughnan^{2

3}, Helen Kim⁴, Michael T Lawton⁵, Nicholas T Vozoris^{2

3

6}; Brain Vascular Malformation Consortium HHT Investigator Group; Brain Vascular Malformation Consortium HHT Investigator Group

Affiliations

¹ University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
² Toronto HHT Centre, Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, St Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, Center for Cerebrovascular Research, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁵ Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
⁶ ICES, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Abstract

This large, multinational, sex-based analysis among individuals with HHT showed that pulmonary AVM frequency, physical characteristics, presentation, complications and management do not generally significantly differ between males and females https://bit.ly/3TNLA6v.

Grants and funding

U54 NS065705/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States