%0 Journal Article
%T Aortocaval Fistula in a Behcet's Disease Patient
%A Yusuf Ata
%A Tamer Turk
%A Mihriban Demir
%A Filiz Ata
%A Senol Yavuz
%J Case Reports in Medicine
%D 2009
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/2009/536424
%X Behcet's disease (BD) is a chronic, recurrent, systemic disease that is characterized by oral and genital ulcers and oculocutaneous inflammatory lesions. Cardiovascular involvement especially large artery involvement is a serious and vital complication of BD. Pseudoaneurysms in the major arteries may be the cause of sudden death in BD. In our case a pulsatile abdominal mass was determined to be an aortic pseudoaneurysm associated with BD and an aortocaval fistula. Here we report this case and a short review of literature because this is the first reported aortocaval fistula in a BD patient in English literature.
%U http://www.hindawi.com/crim/medicine/2009/536424/