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Intracardiac Thrombosis: An Uncommon Manifestation of Behçet’s Disease

Behçet’s disease is a chronic multisystemic vasculitis of unknown etiology that evolves in relapses and remissions with a predominance of cutaneous and ocular lesions. It is more frequent in young adults, with a predominantly male population from the Mediterranean and Middle East. Cardiac involvemen...

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Autores principales: Ezzahraoui, Rhita, Belharty, Najlaa, Bourouhou, Zaineb, EL Ouartassi, Hajar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10540505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37779811
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44385
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author Ezzahraoui, Rhita
Belharty, Najlaa
Bourouhou, Zaineb
EL Ouartassi, Hajar
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description Behçet’s disease is a chronic multisystemic vasculitis of unknown etiology that evolves in relapses and remissions with a predominance of cutaneous and ocular lesions. It is more frequent in young adults, with a predominantly male population from the Mediterranean and Middle East. Cardiac involvement is rare (1 to 6%) but represents one of the most serious complications that can affect the three tunics of the heart. Cardiac thrombus is uncommon, its diagnosis relies mainly on echocardiography, and the development of the empirical treatment is based on immunosuppressive therapy and anticoagulation depending on the case. We report the case of a 21-year-old man admitted for a 2-month history of fever, loss of weight, and body condition in association with an intracardiac thrombus in the context of Behçet's disease. Intracardiac thrombus is a rare manifestation of Behçet's disease; the diagnosis must be made quickly in order to allow early management.
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spelling pubmed-105405052023-09-30 Intracardiac Thrombosis: An Uncommon Manifestation of Behçet’s Disease Ezzahraoui, Rhita Belharty, Najlaa Bourouhou, Zaineb EL Ouartassi, Hajar Cureus Cardiology Behçet’s disease is a chronic multisystemic vasculitis of unknown etiology that evolves in relapses and remissions with a predominance of cutaneous and ocular lesions. It is more frequent in young adults, with a predominantly male population from the Mediterranean and Middle East. Cardiac involvement is rare (1 to 6%) but represents one of the most serious complications that can affect the three tunics of the heart. Cardiac thrombus is uncommon, its diagnosis relies mainly on echocardiography, and the development of the empirical treatment is based on immunosuppressive therapy and anticoagulation depending on the case. We report the case of a 21-year-old man admitted for a 2-month history of fever, loss of weight, and body condition in association with an intracardiac thrombus in the context of Behçet's disease. Intracardiac thrombus is a rare manifestation of Behçet's disease; the diagnosis must be made quickly in order to allow early management. Cureus 2023-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10540505/ /pubmed/37779811 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44385 Text en Copyright © 2023, Ezzahraoui et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Cardiology
Ezzahraoui, Rhita
Belharty, Najlaa
Bourouhou, Zaineb
EL Ouartassi, Hajar
Intracardiac Thrombosis: An Uncommon Manifestation of Behçet’s Disease
title Intracardiac Thrombosis: An Uncommon Manifestation of Behçet’s Disease
title_full Intracardiac Thrombosis: An Uncommon Manifestation of Behçet’s Disease
title_fullStr Intracardiac Thrombosis: An Uncommon Manifestation of Behçet’s Disease
title_full_unstemmed Intracardiac Thrombosis: An Uncommon Manifestation of Behçet’s Disease
title_short Intracardiac Thrombosis: An Uncommon Manifestation of Behçet’s Disease
title_sort intracardiac thrombosis: an uncommon manifestation of behçet’s disease
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10540505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37779811
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44385
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