Case Reports
Chest pain in patients with undiagnosed Behçet's disease
A. Hamzaoui, N. Bel Feki, A. Brahem Sfaxi, M. Smiti Khanfir, I. Ben Ghorbel, M. Lamloum, M.H. Houman
CER5476
2012 Vol.30, N°3 ,Suppl.72
PI 0076, PF 0079
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PMID: 23043972 [PubMed]
Received: 17/02/2012
Accepted : 10/05/2012
In Press: 01/10/2012
Published: 19/11/2012
Abstract
Behçet`s disease (BD) is a systemic inflammatory disease having a chronic and prolonged course with 4 major symptoms: oral and genital ulcerations, eye disease and cutaneous manifestations, as well as other multisystem involvements. Arterial involvement is a comparatively rare complication in BD and coronary lesions are extremely rare. We report here two cases of BD presenting as myocardial infarction (MI) with coronary artery aneurysm (CAA), with good improvement after immunosuppressive therapy.