Table 1

Clinical details of patients at referral

	Patient 1	Patient 2	Patient 3	Patient 4	Patient 5
Sex	Female	Female	Female	Male	Female
Age	54	50	40	58	47
family history	+	+	+	+	−
Telangiectasia	Face	Face	Face	Face	Face
Epistaxis	−	−	+	+	+
Clinical symptoms of complications	Dyspnoea	Upper GI bleeding	Abdominal angina	Dyspnoea	Vitality decrease
	Nycturia	Left ventricular hypertrophy	Weight loss	Nycturia	Dyspnoea
	Left ventricular hypertrophy	Mitral insufficiency	Tricuspidal insufficiency	Vitality decrease
	Arrhythmia	Ascites	Ventricular extrasystoles
	Hypertension		Congested jugular veins
	Ascites		Steal syndrome
Hepatomegaly	+	+	+	+	+
Bruit over the liver	+	+	+	+	+
Alkaline phosphatase raised	+	+	+	+	+
GGT raised	+	+	+	+	+
Cardiac output (l/min) before therapy	15	17,3	13	12	12.5
Shunt	Arteriovenous	Arterioportal	Arteriovenous	Arteriovenous	Arteriovenous
Number of embolisations	3	3	5	3	3