Behçet's aortitis mimicking aortic valve endocarditis with subaortic complications.
Behçet's disease is a systemic inflammatory disease with rare cardiac involvement. We present a case of Behçet's aortitis involving the aortic and mitral valves with vegetations resembling aortic valve endocarditis with subaortic complications. Recurrent aortitis after aortic valve replacement resulted in an aortic pseudoaneurysm formation with moderate perivalvular aortic regurgitation that stabilized with immunosuppressive therapy and without the need for additional cardiac operation.
Shiran
Avinoam
A
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. shiranad@012.net.il
Zisman
Devy
D
Karkabi
Basheer
B
Safadi
Tammah
T
Aravot
Dan
D
Bitterman
Haim
H
Lewis
Basil S
BS
D000328:Adult; D001011:Aorta / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001025:Aortitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004696:Endocarditis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014463:Ultrasonography