01.06.2004 | Letter
A patient with Behçet’s disease who presented with simultaneous cardiac tamponade and central nervous system involvement
verfasst von:
Necati Çakir, Ömer Nuri Pamuk, Gökhan Pekindil, Haluk Doğutan
Erschienen in:
Clinical Rheumatology
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Ausgabe 3/2004
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Excerpt
Central nervous system (CNS) involvement has been reported in 5–10% of patients with Behçet’s disease (BD) [
1]. Cardiac involvement in BD is quite rare, and a few cases with valvular lesions, myocarditis, pericarditis have been defined [
2]. Until now, pericardial tamponade in BD has been reported in only two patients [
3,
4]. In this report we present a patient with BD who came to us with acute meningitis, developed pericardial tamponade and underwent pericardiocentesis. …
