Abstract
Rendu-Osler-Weber disease is a rare condition─found only in one or two people in every 100,000─which causes anemia by systemic telangiectasis and repeated hemorrhage. This disease currently has no curative treatment, but it is said that the prognosis is quite good with symptomatic treatment. However, in many cases a blood transfusion is necessary to resolve anemia caused by hemorrhage. We report here a case of Rendu-Osler-Weber disease in a 78-year-old Asian female who underwent effective treatment of bleeding gastric angioectasia with argon plasma coagulation.
