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Computer tomography features of pulmonary vascular involvement in Behçet's disease
Giuseppe SalvaggioAntonio Lo CastoLeonardo SalvaggioAlberto BrunoClaudio LetoGiuseppe CutaiaLucrezia BrunoCesare GagliardoDomenico AlbanoLorenzo TesèDario GiambellucaMassimo Galiasubject
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineHemoptysismedicine.medical_specialtybusiness.industryTomography X-ray computedSettore MED/37 - NeuroradiologiaBehçet syndromeBehcet's diseasemedicine.diseasePulmonary arterymedicineTomographyRadiologySettore MED/36 - Diagnostica Per Immagini E Radioterapiabusinessdescription
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.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-05-01 | Minerva Pneumologica |