Clinical Manifestations and Complications of Scrub Typhus: A Hospital-based Study from North Andhra.

Aims And Objectives: To describe the diversity of clinical manifestations, laboratory findings and outcome of scrub typhus in hospitalised patients of Tirumala Hospital, Vizianagaram during 2014-2015.

Material And Methods: All the cases of acute febrile illness diagnosed as scrub typhus were analysed. Diagnosis was based on clinical and serological data.

Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia with Severe Anemia and Recurrent CNS Infections.

Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia, also known as Osler-Rendu-Weber disease is a rare autosomal dominant disorder affecting small vessels of multiple systems whose main pathological change is the presence of abnormal arteriovenous communications. Usually presents as skin and mucosal telangiectasias, epistaxis, gastrointestinal bleeding and visceral arteriovenous malformations. Although the epistaxis and gastrointestinal blood loss can result in anaemia, patients with hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia rarely presents as severe anaemia1 or CNS infections.