Inferior Tubinectomy with Nasal Dermoplasty for Epistaxis in Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia

Abstract

Nasal dermoplasty is currently the treatment of choice in severe epistaxis in those with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. The Japanese literature dose not, to our knowledge, report the combination of inferior tubinectomy and nasal dermoplasty in such treatment.
A 69-year-old woman with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia and recurrent epistaxis treated combining tubinectomy and dermoplasty and who had required 174 units of blood 1 year before dermoplasty enjoyed a decrease to 18 units 1 year after dermoplasty.