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Behcet's Disease with Intracardiac Thrombus Presenting with Fever of Unknown Etiology

A young male was referred to us for evaluation of fever of unknown origin (FUO). He had history of recurrent painful oral ulcers for one year and moderate to high grade fever, pustulopapular rash, and recurrent genital ulcers for 6 months and hemoptysis for 3 days. He was detected to have intracardi...

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Autores principales: Ajmani, Sajal, Misra, Durga Prasanna, Raja, Deep Chandh, Mohindra, Namita, Agarwal, Vikas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4573877/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26425377
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/149359
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author Ajmani, Sajal
Misra, Durga Prasanna
Raja, Deep Chandh
Mohindra, Namita
Agarwal, Vikas
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description A young male was referred to us for evaluation of fever of unknown origin (FUO). He had history of recurrent painful oral ulcers for one year and moderate to high grade fever, pustulopapular rash, and recurrent genital ulcers for 6 months and hemoptysis for 3 days. He was detected to have intracardiac thrombi and pulmonary arterial thrombosis along with underlying Behcet's disease (BD). Patient responded to high dose prednisolone (1 mg/Kg/day) along with monthly parenteral cyclophosphamide therapy. This case highlights the fact that BD is an important cause for pulmonary artery vasculitis with intracardiac thrombus formation, and such patients can present with FUO.
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spelling pubmed-45738772015-09-30 Behcet's Disease with Intracardiac Thrombus Presenting with Fever of Unknown Etiology Ajmani, Sajal Misra, Durga Prasanna Raja, Deep Chandh Mohindra, Namita Agarwal, Vikas Case Reports Immunol Case Report A young male was referred to us for evaluation of fever of unknown origin (FUO). He had history of recurrent painful oral ulcers for one year and moderate to high grade fever, pustulopapular rash, and recurrent genital ulcers for 6 months and hemoptysis for 3 days. He was detected to have intracardiac thrombi and pulmonary arterial thrombosis along with underlying Behcet's disease (BD). Patient responded to high dose prednisolone (1 mg/Kg/day) along with monthly parenteral cyclophosphamide therapy. This case highlights the fact that BD is an important cause for pulmonary artery vasculitis with intracardiac thrombus formation, and such patients can present with FUO. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4573877/ /pubmed/26425377 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/149359 Text en Copyright © 2015 Sajal Ajmani et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Behcet's Disease with Intracardiac Thrombus Presenting with Fever of Unknown Etiology
title_full Behcet's Disease with Intracardiac Thrombus Presenting with Fever of Unknown Etiology
title_fullStr Behcet's Disease with Intracardiac Thrombus Presenting with Fever of Unknown Etiology
title_full_unstemmed Behcet's Disease with Intracardiac Thrombus Presenting with Fever of Unknown Etiology
title_short Behcet's Disease with Intracardiac Thrombus Presenting with Fever of Unknown Etiology
title_sort behcet's disease with intracardiac thrombus presenting with fever of unknown etiology
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4573877/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26425377
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/149359
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