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A diagnosis not to be missed: Behcet’s disease as a cause of dilated cardiomyopathy in a young Arab male patient
Author(s) -
AL IZZI Mustafa,
EL BUR Mohammed,
ARIF Mohammed
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
international journal of rheumatic diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.795
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1756-185X
pISSN - 1756-1841
DOI - 10.1111/j.1756-185x.2009.01451.x
Subject(s) - medicine , behcet's disease , dilated cardiomyopathy , behcet disease , cardiomyopathy , disease , dermatology , cardiology , heart failure
We report a 33‐year‐old Arab male patient who was thought to have severe idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) associated with complete atrioventricular block for more than 6 years, then was found to possess features suggestive of underlying Behcet’s disease in the form of recurrent oral and genital ulcers, cutaneous folliculitis, superficial thrombophlebitis, pathergism, partially thrombosed portal vein and a positive human leukocyte antigen ‐B51.