Right ventricular thrombus with pulmonary artery aneurysm in a young male: A rare presentation of Behçet's disease

We describe an adolescent patient presenting with hemoptysis. Detailed clinical work up of the patient showed right ventricular thrombus and bilateral pulmonary artery aneurysms along with the prescribed criteria for the diagnosis of Behcet's disease. Younger age of the patient was another dist...

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Autores principales: Bhandari, Chand, Rathi, Lalit, Gupta, Mridul, Khatri, Jaikishan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4429393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25983417
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.156253
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description We describe an adolescent patient presenting with hemoptysis. Detailed clinical work up of the patient showed right ventricular thrombus and bilateral pulmonary artery aneurysms along with the prescribed criteria for the diagnosis of Behcet's disease. Younger age of the patient was another distinctive feature of this case. Six months of therapy with cyclophosphamide and prednisolone resulted in near complete clinicoradiological response.
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spelling pubmed-44293932015-05-15 Right ventricular thrombus with pulmonary artery aneurysm in a young male: A rare presentation of Behçet's disease Bhandari, Chand Rathi, Lalit Gupta, Mridul Khatri, Jaikishan Lung India Case Report We describe an adolescent patient presenting with hemoptysis. Detailed clinical work up of the patient showed right ventricular thrombus and bilateral pulmonary artery aneurysms along with the prescribed criteria for the diagnosis of Behcet's disease. Younger age of the patient was another distinctive feature of this case. Six months of therapy with cyclophosphamide and prednisolone resulted in near complete clinicoradiological response. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4429393/ /pubmed/25983417 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.156253 Text en Copyright: © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Right ventricular thrombus with pulmonary artery aneurysm in a young male: A rare presentation of Behçet's disease
title Right ventricular thrombus with pulmonary artery aneurysm in a young male: A rare presentation of Behçet's disease
title_full Right ventricular thrombus with pulmonary artery aneurysm in a young male: A rare presentation of Behçet's disease
title_fullStr Right ventricular thrombus with pulmonary artery aneurysm in a young male: A rare presentation of Behçet's disease
title_full_unstemmed Right ventricular thrombus with pulmonary artery aneurysm in a young male: A rare presentation of Behçet's disease
title_short Right ventricular thrombus with pulmonary artery aneurysm in a young male: A rare presentation of Behçet's disease
title_sort right ventricular thrombus with pulmonary artery aneurysm in a young male: a rare presentation of behçet's disease
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4429393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25983417
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.156253
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