Word: telangiectasia
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...spending $60,000 and turning up nothing, the Marguses took their sons to see Dr. Jean Aicardi, a world-famous French neurologist who happened to be visiting Miami Children's Hospital. "In the first five minutes, he saw our kids and said, 'It looks an awful lot like ataxia-telangiectasia,' which we couldn't even pronounce. 'I assume you've tested for this?' All it takes is a $20 blood test. The local doctors just looked at their feet." The Marguses recognized the name (it's pronounced ay-tack-see-uh teh-lan-jick-tay-sha), but all they knew...
...Ribicoff suffers from a rare disease called hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. It is inherited, like brown eyes, in a Mendelian dominant pattern; some of Mrs. Ribicoff's cousins have it, but her own two children apparently do not. In this disorder, the blood itself is normal. But in some parts of the body, there are abnormal swellings of the ends of minute arteries and veins. These "end-vessel swellings" (telangiectases) burst and bleed...
Ruth Ribicoff can look forward to relief from severe nosebleeds. If she still has any, they should be no more troublesome than those of people who are free of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia...
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