Aneurysm of the internal carotid artery in a female patient of Behcet's disease: a rare presentation.
Behcet's disease is a systemic inflammatory disease characterized commonly by oral and genital ulcerations, with skin and eye involvement. Unlike other manifestations, involvement of the central nervous system and vascular manifestations can be late in the course and are the leading causes of death. Aneurysms are relatively common in visceral vessels but extremely rare in intracranial arteries, being limited to few case reports. Moreover, vascular involvement is significantly less common in female than in male patients. In this paper, we report a case of aneurysm of internal carotid artery in a female patient of Behcet's disease who had presented with subarachnoid hemorrhage and was treated successfully by a brief course of corticosteroids followed by endovascular treatment.
Department of Immunology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India. sumeet.drsumeetagrawal@gmail.com
Sumeet
S
Agrawal
R
R
Jagadeesh
Amita
A
Aggarwal
R V
RV
Phadke
Ramnath
R
Misra
D000328:Adult; D017542:Aneurysm, Ruptured / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology*; D002340:Carotid Artery Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D002343:Carotid Artery, Internal; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013345:Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology