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Can Behcet’s Disease Related Pulmonary Arterial Aneurysms be Completely Resolved?

Behçet disease is a systemic disease with diverse clinical symptoms which include, but not limited to, patients having oral and genital ulcers and eye involvement. We here report an 18-year-old male presenting with massive hemoptysis and cardiac arrest, having history of ulcers in the oral cavity an...

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Autores principales: Agha, Adnan, Bella, Abdelhaleem M.E, Assiri, Al-Hussain M, Al-Hakami, Mohammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bentham Open 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3245488/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22216070
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874312901105010088
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author Agha, Adnan
Bella, Abdelhaleem M.E
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Al-Hakami, Mohammad
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description Behçet disease is a systemic disease with diverse clinical symptoms which include, but not limited to, patients having oral and genital ulcers and eye involvement. We here report an 18-year-old male presenting with massive hemoptysis and cardiac arrest, having history of ulcers in the oral cavity and genitalia as well as having recent episode of uveitis. A pulmonary CT angiography revealed bilateral arterial aneurysms of pulmonary vessels. On receiving Immunosuppressive treatment for Behcet disease with prednisone and azathioprine over one year the pulmonary arterial aneurysms were completely resolved and the patient was discharged from the hospital albeit with persistent hypoxic brain injury from cardiac arrest.
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spelling pubmed-32454882012-01-03 Can Behcet’s Disease Related Pulmonary Arterial Aneurysms be Completely Resolved? Agha, Adnan Bella, Abdelhaleem M.E Assiri, Al-Hussain M Al-Hakami, Mohammad Open Rheumatol J Article Behçet disease is a systemic disease with diverse clinical symptoms which include, but not limited to, patients having oral and genital ulcers and eye involvement. We here report an 18-year-old male presenting with massive hemoptysis and cardiac arrest, having history of ulcers in the oral cavity and genitalia as well as having recent episode of uveitis. A pulmonary CT angiography revealed bilateral arterial aneurysms of pulmonary vessels. On receiving Immunosuppressive treatment for Behcet disease with prednisone and azathioprine over one year the pulmonary arterial aneurysms were completely resolved and the patient was discharged from the hospital albeit with persistent hypoxic brain injury from cardiac arrest. Bentham Open 2011-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3245488/ /pubmed/22216070 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874312901105010088 Text en © Agha et al.; Licensee Bentham Open. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
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