Behçet's Aortitis Mimicking Aortic Valve Endocarditis with Subaortic Complications

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 578.e1-578.e4

  Shiran, Avinoam ^a   Zisman, Devy ^a   Karkabi, Basheer ^a   Safadi, Tammah ^a   Aravot, Dan ^a   Bitterman, Haim ^a   Lewis, Basil S ^a  

^a CARMEL MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTITIS; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG STABILITY; ENDOCARDITIS; ENDOLEAK; FALSE ANEURYSM; FLUID RETENTION; HEART ABSCESS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE EDEMA; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; RECURRENT DISEASE;

EID: 33646532415     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2005.12.012     Document Type: Article

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