Serious Coronary Thrombosis and Pulmonary Artery Thrombosis Revealing Behçet's Disease.

Arch Rheumatol

Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Xiangya Hospital, Institute of Rheumatology and Immunology, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.

Published: March 2018

Behçet's disease is a multisystem inflammatory disorder. Cardiovascular involvement is rare but may present with various manifestations, resulting in high mortality. In this article, we report a young male who had chest pain accompanied by systemic involvement, and was diagnosed of Behçet's disease with serious pulmonary artery and coronary thrombosis by systemic check-up. Finally, the patient was successfully treated with a combination of prednisone and immunosuppressive agents instead of surgery. To our knowledge, this is the first report of concurrent coronary thrombosis and pulmonary artery thrombosis in Behçet's disease patients.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5864177PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.5606/ArchRheumatol.2018.6383DOI Listing

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