Behçet’s Aortitis Mimicking Aortic Valve Endocarditis with Subaortic Complications - 20/08/11
Doi : 10.1016/j.echo.2005.12.012
Avinoam Shiran, MD, MSc a, ⁎ 
, Devy Zisman, MD c, Basheer Karkabi, MD a, Tammah Safadi, MD b, Dan Aravot, MD b, Haim Bitterman, MD c, Basil S. Lewis, MD, FRCP a
, Devy Zisman, MD c, Basheer Karkabi, MD a, Tammah Safadi, MD b, Dan Aravot, MD b, Haim Bitterman, MD c, Basil S. Lewis, MD, FRCP a a Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center and the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (A.S., B.K., B.S.L.)
b Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center and the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (T.S., D.A.)
c Department of Internal Medicine (D.Z., H.B.), Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center and the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Reprint requests: Avinoam Shiran, MD, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, 7 Michal St, Haifa 34362, IsraelRésumé |
Behçet’s disease is a systemic inflammatory disease with rare cardiac involvement. We present a case of Behçet’s aortitis involving the aortic and mitral valves with vegetations resembling aortic valve endocarditis with subaortic complications. Recurrent aortitis after aortic valve replacement resulted in an aortic pseudoaneurysm formation with moderate perivalvular aortic regurgitation that stabilized with immunosuppressive therapy and without the need for additional cardiac operation.
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Vol 19 - N° 5
P. 578.e1-578.e4 - mai 2006 Retour au numéro
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