Behçet's disease presenting with a right atrial vegetation.
Behçet's disease (BD) is difficult to diagnose in children because patients often do not have characteristic symptoms and pediatricians have a low awareness of BD. We report on the case of BD in a 12-year-old boy that presented as endocarditis. Prednisolone, started after infective endocarditis had been ruled out, had a dramatic effect. Cardiac involvement in BD and the differential diagnosis of endocarditis are discussed.
Nakata
Y
Y
Department of Pediatrics, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Awazu
M
M
Kojima
Y
Y
Tokumura
M
M
Yamagishi
H
H
Yamashita
N
N
D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male