title: Aortocaval Fistula in a Behcet's Disease Patient.
abstract: Behcet's disease (BD) is a chronic, recurrent, systemic disease that is characterized by oral and genital ulcers and oculocutaneous inflammatory lesions. Cardiovascular involvement especially large artery involvement is a serious and vital complication of BD. Pseudoaneurysms in the major arteries may be the cause of sudden death in BD. In our case a pulsatile abdominal mass was determined to be an aortic pseudoaneurysm associated with BD and an aortocaval fistula. Here we report this case and a short review of literature because this is the first reported aortocaval fistula in a BD patient in English literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Bursa Yuksek Ihtisas Education and Research Hospital, 16330 Bursa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Yusuf
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ata
authors.forename: Tamer
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Turk
authors.forename: Mihriban
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Demir
authors.forename: Filiz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ata
authors.forename: Senol
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yavuz