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Behçet’s Disease and Intracardiac Thrombosis: A Report of Three Cases

Authors :
Nurşen Düzgün
Orhan Küçükşahin
Kayhan Çetin Atasoy
Canan Togay Işıkay
Demet Menekşe Gerede
Ayşe Erden
Seda Kaynak Şahap
Muhammed Arif İbiş
Aşkın Ateş
Source :
Case Reports in Rheumatology, Vol 2013 (2013)
Publication Year :
2013
Publisher :
Hindawi Limited, 2013.

Abstract

We present three patients with Behçet’s disease associated with intracardiac thrombus and pulmonary vascular involvement. One of these patients had also Budd-Chiari syndrome. All patients were treated with corticosteroid plus monthly intravenous cyclophosphamide as first line treatment and with no recurrences. Immunosuppressive therapy was successful in the treatment of intracardiac thrombus and also in the regression of pulmonary vascular thromboses in these patients. Intracardiac thrombus in Behçet’s disease is rarely seen. Behçet’s disease should be remembered in the differential diagnosis of the patients with intracardiac mass, especially in patients from the Mediterranean and Middle East populations.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20906889 and 20906897
Volume :
2013
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Case Reports in Rheumatology
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.2385fc3a324d4aaaad5ddc847e77b508
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/637015