Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm in Behcet’s Disease: A Ticking Time Bomb

A Case of Behcet’s Disease Combined with Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm in a Korean Female Patient

Behçet's disease (BD) is a systemic disorder of unknown process resulting from systemic vasculitis. The pulmonary involvements in BD are uncommon. Furthermore, in the female, involvement of the pulmonary artery is quite rare. There were a few cases of female patients with BD with pulmonary artery aneurysm confirmed by pulmonary artery angiogram. In this article, we report a case of BD, combined...

New ways to dismantle a ticking time bomb: microRNA 712/205 and abdominal aortic aneurysm development.

CASE REPORT Endovascular treatment of aortic aneurysms in patients with Behcet’s disease: report of two cases Tratamento endovascular de aneurismas da aorta em pacientes com doença de Behçet: relato de dois casos

Behcet’s disease, a systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology, is characterized by recurrent oral and genital ulcers, ocular manifestations and skin lesions.1 Cardiovascular manifestations may occur in around 7-38% of patients;1 it is, thus, the most common cause of death among these patients.2 Peripheral vascular lesion is rare, and arterial lesions are less common than venous disease; its preva...

Hughes-Stovin Syndrome

Hughes-Stovin syndrome is a rare disorder of unknown etiology characterized by the association of multiple pulmonary artery aneurysms and deep venous thrombosis. Some authors consider this entity an incomplete form of Behcet’s disease due to the similarities between the radiologic and anatomopathological findings of pulmonary involvement. The authors report a case of Hughes-Stovin syndrome whos...

Asymptomatic Brugada syndrome: a cardiac ticking time-bomb?

‘You have a ticking time-bomb in your body’ is an expression too commonly used by cardiovascular surgeons when counseling patients with asymptomatic aortic aneurysm. Such patients find it difficult to cope with their ‘ticking-bomb’ dilemma—which sooner or later may blow-out their aorta— and often opt for invasive therapy before the ‘risk-vs.benefits’ section of the discussion is over. Based on ...