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Descriptor English: Angiodysplasia
Descriptor Spanish: Angiodisplasia
Descriptor angiodisplasia
Scope note: Expansión o dilatación (ectasia) degenerativa adquirida de los VASOS SANGUÍNEOS normales, generalemente asociada con la edad. Pueden ser aisladas, tortuosas, vasos con las paredes delgadas y fuentes de sangrado. Su aparición más frecuente se da en los capilares de la mucosa del TRACTO GASTROINTESTINAL, lo que conduce a HEMORRAGIA GASTROINTESTINAL y ANEMIA.
Descriptor Portuguese: Angiodisplasia
Descriptor French: Angiodysplasie
Entry term(s): Angiodysplasias
Tree number(s): C14.907.075
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016888
Scope note: Acquired degenerative dilation or expansion (ectasia) of normal BLOOD VESSELS, often associated with aging. They are isolated, tortuous, thin-walled vessels and sources of bleeding. They occur most often in mucosal capillaries of the GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT leading to GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE and ANEMIA.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Entry Combination: congenital:Arteriovenous Malformations
Previous Indexing: Angiomatosis (1966-1976)
Arteriovenous Malformations (1976-1991)
Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage (1976-1991)
Public MeSH Note: 92
History Note: 92
DeCS ID: 30266
Unique ID: D016888
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Date Established: 1992/01/01
Date of Entry: 1991/05/30
Revision Date: 2007/07/09
Angiodysplasia - Preferred
Concept UI M0025698
Scope note Acquired degenerative dilation or expansion (ectasia) of normal BLOOD VESSELS, often associated with aging. They are isolated, tortuous, thin-walled vessels and sources of bleeding. They occur most often in mucosal capillaries of the GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT leading to GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE and ANEMIA.
Preferred term Angiodysplasia
Entry term(s) Angiodysplasias



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