Multiple cardiovascular complications in a patient with Behcet's disease

Korean Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 100-102

  Chang, Ji Eun ^a   Lee, You Hyun ^a   Lee, Jisoo ^a  

^a Ewha Womans University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Behcet disease; Pulmonary embolism; Thrombosis

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; GLUCOCORTICOID; LUPUS ANTICOAGULANT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; FATALITY; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GENITAL ULCER; HEART AUSCULTATION; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALE; MOUTH ULCER; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PULMONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; PUSTULE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKIN EXAMINATION; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEIN OCCLUSION;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; BEHCET SYNDROME; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RISK FACTORS; RUPTURE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 45949108112     PISSN: 12263303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3904/kjim.2008.23.2.100     Document Type: Article

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