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Aortocaval Fistula in a Behcet's Disease Patient
Author(s) -
Yusuf Ata,
Tamer Türk,
Mihriban Demir,
Filiz Ata,
Şenol Yavuz
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
case reports in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.2
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1687-9627
pISSN - 1687-9635
DOI - 10.1155/2009/536424
Subject(s) - medicine , fistula , behcet's disease , pulsatile flow , behcet disease , arteriovenous fistula , pseudoaneurysm , complication , aortitis , surgery , disease , abdominal mass , cardiology , aorta
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.

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