Cardiovascular Behcet disease: the variable findings of rare complications with CT angiography and conventional angiography and its interventional management.
Unusual radiological manifestations of rare complications of cardiovascular Behcet disease (BD) are the following: (a) aneurysm and (b) occlusion in the aorta and its major branches, (c) pseudoaneurysms on the aortic root and coronary artery, and recurrent valvular dehiscence in the heart, (d) venous thrombosis in the deep and superficial venous system and vena cava. The initial exact diagnosis of cardiovascular BD has been extremely difficult for these rare complicated findings, especially in the absence of the florid clinical manifestations of BD. Radiologist should be aware of possibility of cardiovascular BD via familiarity with its rare imaging features, including computed tomographic angiography (and its 3-dimensional reconstructed images), conventional angiography, and with the clinical characteristics of BD because of high mortality of cardiovascular BD.
Cho
Young Kwon
YK
Department of Radiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Lee
Whal
W
Choi
Sang Il
SI
Jae
Hwan Jun
HJ
Chung
Jin Wook
JW
Park
Jae Hyung
JH
D000328:Adult; D000792:Angiography / Q000379:methods*; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013924:Thrombophlebitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014657:Vasculitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging