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Multiple cardiovascular complications in a patient with Behcet's disease

Arterial and cardiac involvement of Behcet's disease is a rare but life threatening complication. The rupture of an arterial aneurysm might result in sudden death. We report a 54-year-old man with an established diagnosis of Behcet's disease who presented with multiple cardiovascular compl...

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Autores principales: Chang, Ji-Eun, Lee, You-Hyun, Lee, Jisoo
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2686973/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18646513
http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2008.23.2.100
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author Chang, Ji-Eun
Lee, You-Hyun
Lee, Jisoo
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description Arterial and cardiac involvement of Behcet's disease is a rare but life threatening complication. The rupture of an arterial aneurysm might result in sudden death. We report a 54-year-old man with an established diagnosis of Behcet's disease who presented with multiple cardiovascular complications that eventually lead to his death. He presented with extensive venous occlusions, and sequentially developed right ventricular thrombosis with multiple pulmonary thromboembolisms, and a pulmonary artery aneurysm. We report this unusual sequence of cardiovascular complications in a patient with Behcet's disease.
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spelling pubmed-26869732009-06-15 Multiple cardiovascular complications in a patient with Behcet's disease Chang, Ji-Eun Lee, You-Hyun Lee, Jisoo Korean J Intern Med Case Report Arterial and cardiac involvement of Behcet's disease is a rare but life threatening complication. The rupture of an arterial aneurysm might result in sudden death. We report a 54-year-old man with an established diagnosis of Behcet's disease who presented with multiple cardiovascular complications that eventually lead to his death. He presented with extensive venous occlusions, and sequentially developed right ventricular thrombosis with multiple pulmonary thromboembolisms, and a pulmonary artery aneurysm. We report this unusual sequence of cardiovascular complications in a patient with Behcet's disease. The Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2008-06 2008-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC2686973/ /pubmed/18646513 http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2008.23.2.100 Text en Copyright © 2008 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Chang, Ji-Eun
Lee, You-Hyun
Lee, Jisoo
Multiple cardiovascular complications in a patient with Behcet's disease
title Multiple cardiovascular complications in a patient with Behcet's disease
title_full Multiple cardiovascular complications in a patient with Behcet's disease
title_fullStr Multiple cardiovascular complications in a patient with Behcet's disease
title_full_unstemmed Multiple cardiovascular complications in a patient with Behcet's disease
title_short Multiple cardiovascular complications in a patient with Behcet's disease
title_sort multiple cardiovascular complications in a patient with behcet's disease
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2686973/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18646513
http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2008.23.2.100
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