title: Vascular Behçet's disease with coronary artery aneurysm.
abstract: A 33-year-old man with a 4-year history of Behçet's disease was hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) treated 99% stenosis of the right coronary artery but follow-up coronary arteriography clearly revealed a coronary artery aneurysm (CAA) at the lesion proximal to the PCI site and intravascular ultrasound confirmed that it was a true aneurysm. We speculated that Behçet's disease might be involved in coronary lesion, especially in CAA formation. We decided to increase the dose of prednisolone and to add warfarin. The size of the CAA was not altered after 6 months.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, Osaka.
authors.forename: Kumiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Arishiro
authors.forename: Jin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nariyama
authors.forename: Masaaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hoshiga
authors.forename: Atushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nakagawa
authors.forename: Taichi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Okabe
authors.forename: Takahiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakakoji
authors.forename: Nobuyuki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Negoro
authors.forename: Tadashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ishihara
authors.forename: Toshiaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hanafusa
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000925:Anticoagulants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000188:drug therapy; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography
chemical_list: D000925:Anticoagulants