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- 2019
Assessing the Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Algorithms in a Community-Based Patient PopulationDOI: 10.7812/TPP/18-145 Keywords: arteriovenous malformations, brain abscess, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, population science, rare disease surveillance Abstract: Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is a rare, genetic, and underdiagnosed disease that causes vascular malformations throughout the body. Two specific combinations of International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision-Clinical Modification diagnosis codes, the “HHT Algorithms” (HHTAs), were developed previously from a derivation cohort to help identify undiagnosed HHT cases
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