title: Tricuspid aseptic endocarditis revealing right endomyocardial fibrosis during an unrecognized Behçet's disease. A case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Aseptic endocarditis or/and endomyocardial fibrosis are rarely reported in Behçet's disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report on a case of a 21-year-old man living in Algeria, revealed by verrucous tricuspid valvulitis extending to the ventricular endomyocardium and complicated with right heart failure, initially misdiagnosed and treated as infective endocarditis occurring on rheumatic cardiac after-effects. DISCUSSION; We discuss the lack of specificity of Jones criteria and emphasize the need to include cardiac involvement in Behçet's disease in the differential diagnosis of rheumatic fever carditis. This message is notably important in some countries where the prevalence of these two entities are among the highest in the world.
authors.affiliation: Department of internal medicine and rheumatology, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris (75). achille.aouba@wanadoo.fr
authors.forename: Achille
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aouba
authors.forename: Lucie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Nebie
authors.forename: Jean-Noel
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Fabiani
authors.forename: Patrice
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bruneval
authors.forename: Blaise
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Patri
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: De Bandt
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004696:Endocarditis / Q000209:etiology*; D004719:Endomyocardial Fibrosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012214:Rheumatic Heart Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D014261:Tricuspid Valve / Q000473:pathology*; D018497:Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / Q000209:etiology