Behçet's Disease and Intracardiac Thrombosis: A Report of Three Cases.
We present three patients with Behçet's disease associated with intracardiac thrombus and pulmonary vascular involvement. One of these patients had also Budd-Chiari syndrome. All patients were treated with corticosteroid plus monthly intravenous cyclophosphamide as first line treatment and with no recurrences. Immunosuppressive therapy was successful in the treatment of intracardiac thrombus and also in the regression of pulmonary vascular thromboses in these patients. Intracardiac thrombus in Behçet's disease is rarely seen. Behçet's disease should be remembered in the differential diagnosis of the patients with intracardiac mass, especially in patients from the Mediterranean and Middle East populations.
Department of Internal Medicine-Rheumatology, Ankara University, Faculty of Medicine, Akademik Yerleşke, Sıhhıye, 06100 Ankara, Turkey.
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Düzgün
Orhan
O
Küçükşahin
Kayhan Çetin
KÇ
Atasoy
Canan
C
Togay Işıkay
Demet Menekşe
DM
Gerede
Ayşe
A
Erden
Seda Kaynak
SK
Sahap
Muhammed Arif
MA
Ibiş
Aşkın
A
Ateş