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Computer tomography features of pulmonary vascular involvement in Behçet's disease
- Source :
- Minerva Pneumologica. 58
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Edizioni Minerva Medica, 2019.
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Abstract
- Behçet’s disease is a chronic and multisystemic inflammatory vascular disease of unknown etiology, affecting vessels of all kinds and sizes. The involvement of the vascular system is observed in approximately 5-30% of patients. The most frequent vascular manifestations are venous thrombosis followed by arterial aneurysms and arterial thrombosis. The identification of vascular involvement is very important for prognosis, indeed the rupture of an arterial aneurysm represents the leading cause of sudden death in patients with Behçet’s disease. Computed tomography (CT) plays a crucial role in the identification and in the follow-up of vascular involvement. In this paper, we report the case of a 42-year-old woman with Behçet’s disease, admitted to our emergency department for hemoptysis, showing pulmonary and visceral artery aneurysms identified at CT examination. A particular “string of beads” appearance of pulmonary arteries is described. We report, also, follow-up CT examination after medical therapy showing pulmonary artery aneurysms reduction and visceral artery aneurysms stability.
- Subjects :
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Hemoptysis
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Tomography, X-ray computed
Settore MED/37 - Neuroradiologia
Behçet syndrome
Behcet's disease
medicine.disease
Pulmonary artery
medicine
Tomography
Radiology
Settore MED/36 - Diagnostica Per Immagini E Radioterapia
business
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Details
- ISSN :
- 18271723 and 00264954
- Volume :
- 58
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Minerva Pneumologica
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....90b2f08a3c0767af4ed5f3ff5f95c596