Successful medical treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms in a patient with Behcet's disease: imaging findings.
Arterial manifestations of Behcet's disease consist of aneurysm formation, stenosis and occlusion. Aneurysms in Behcet's disease most commonly involve the pulmonary arteries and have been shown to resolve with medical treatment. However, this regression pattern with medical therapy has not been reported for aortic aneurysms to date. We present a 43-year-old man with bilateral abdominal aortic aneurysms resulting from Behcet's disease resolving with medical therapy.
Yekeler
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Department of Radiology, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey. yekelerensar@yahoo.com
Tunaci
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Tunaci
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Kamali
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Gul
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Acunas
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D000328:Adult; D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction; D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed