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- Title
Aortocaval Fistula in a Behcet's Disease Patient.
- Authors
Ata, Yusuf; Turk, Tamer; Demir, Mihriban; Ata, Filiz; Yavuz, Senol
- Abstract
Behcet's disease (BD) is a chronic, recurrent, systemic disease that is characterized by oral and genital ulcers and oculocutaneous inflammatory lesions. Cardiovascular involvement especially large artery involvement is a serious and vital complication of BD. Pseudoaneurysms in the major arteries may be the cause of sudden death in BD. In our case a pulsatile abdominal mass was determined to be an aortic pseudoaneurysm associated with BD and an aortocaval fistula. Here we report this case and a short review of literature because this is the first reported aortocaval fistula in a BD patient in English literature.
- Publication
Case reports in medicine, 2009, Vol 2009, p536424
- ISSN
1687-9635
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1155/2009/536424