title: Behçet's aortitis mimicking aortic valve endocarditis with subaortic complications.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: 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
authors.forename: Avinoam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shiran
authors.forename: Devy
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zisman
authors.forename: Basheer
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Karkabi
authors.forename: Tammah
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Safadi
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Aravot
authors.forename: Haim
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bitterman
authors.forename: Basil S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Lewis
mesh_terms: 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