Thoracic Research and Practice
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Intracardiac Thrombus and Co-existing Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm in Behçet's Disease: Two Case Reports

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Department of Chest Diseases, School of Medicine, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey

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Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey

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Department of Thoracic Surgery, School of Medicine, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey

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Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, School of Medicine, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey

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Department of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey

Thorac Res Pract 2003; 4: Turkish Respiratory Journal 153-155
Read: 660 Published: 10 October 2021

Behçet’s disease is a rare form of vasculitis of obscure aetiol­ogy. We report two cases of Behçet’s disease with intracardiac thrombus and pulmonary artery aneurysm occurring together. The clinical characteristics of the two patients, one male, one female, were analysed retrospectively. The male patient (age:27) was admitted for pleuritic chest pain and the female patient (age:35) for high fever of unknown origin. Both patients had multiple subpleural nodules, right-sided cardiac thrombi, and bilateral pulmonary artery aneurysms. In the female patient the intracardiac thrombus was removed by surgery but she died after six months as a result of a massive haemoptysis. The male patient was treated with immunosup­pressive drugs, is still alive and doing well.

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