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Castleman’s Disease with Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm: A Rare Presentation of Behçet’s Disease
Diagnosing Behcet’s disease (BD) in a patient already diagnosed with Castelman’s disease (CD) is rare. There are only a few cases reported in the literature and all of them were diagnosed as BD prior to the patient experiencing symptoms and signs of CD. We present a patient who was initially diagnos...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7217244/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32411549 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7647 |
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author | Al-Sardi, Mais Abdulhadi, Deemah Al-Jishi, Faiza Deraan, Khaled |
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description | Diagnosing Behcet’s disease (BD) in a patient already diagnosed with Castelman’s disease (CD) is rare. There are only a few cases reported in the literature and all of them were diagnosed as BD prior to the patient experiencing symptoms and signs of CD. We present a patient who was initially diagnosed as having CD. However, after being managed with chemotherapy, specifically after the fourth cycle, the patient was found to have an incidental finding of pulmonary artery aneurysm, which led to the diagnosis of BD. For that, he received the appropriate management of high-dose steroid, azathioprine, and oral anticoagulant. Currently, the patient is doing well, and the latest computed tomography scan showed complete resolution of his pulmonary aneurysm. We suggest taking a thorough history from all patients with BD symptoms and signs, especially in CD patients as they may overlap, for early diagnosis and to prevent complications. |
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spelling | pubmed-72172442020-05-14 Castleman’s Disease with Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm: A Rare Presentation of Behçet’s Disease Al-Sardi, Mais Abdulhadi, Deemah Al-Jishi, Faiza Deraan, Khaled Cureus Internal Medicine Diagnosing Behcet’s disease (BD) in a patient already diagnosed with Castelman’s disease (CD) is rare. There are only a few cases reported in the literature and all of them were diagnosed as BD prior to the patient experiencing symptoms and signs of CD. We present a patient who was initially diagnosed as having CD. However, after being managed with chemotherapy, specifically after the fourth cycle, the patient was found to have an incidental finding of pulmonary artery aneurysm, which led to the diagnosis of BD. For that, he received the appropriate management of high-dose steroid, azathioprine, and oral anticoagulant. Currently, the patient is doing well, and the latest computed tomography scan showed complete resolution of his pulmonary aneurysm. We suggest taking a thorough history from all patients with BD symptoms and signs, especially in CD patients as they may overlap, for early diagnosis and to prevent complications. Cureus 2020-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7217244/ /pubmed/32411549 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7647 Text en Copyright © 2020, Al-Sardi et al. http://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 | Internal Medicine Al-Sardi, Mais Abdulhadi, Deemah Al-Jishi, Faiza Deraan, Khaled Castleman’s Disease with Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm: A Rare Presentation of Behçet’s Disease |
title | Castleman’s Disease with Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm: A Rare Presentation of Behçet’s Disease |
title_full | Castleman’s Disease with Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm: A Rare Presentation of Behçet’s Disease |
title_fullStr | Castleman’s Disease with Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm: A Rare Presentation of Behçet’s Disease |
title_full_unstemmed | Castleman’s Disease with Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm: A Rare Presentation of Behçet’s Disease |
title_short | Castleman’s Disease with Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm: A Rare Presentation of Behçet’s Disease |
title_sort | castleman’s disease with pulmonary artery aneurysm: a rare presentation of behçet’s disease |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7217244/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32411549 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7647 |
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