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We appreciate the interest of Ertan Yetkin and Selcuk Ozturk in our published article "Characteristic Echocardiographic Manifestations of Behcet's Disease" and thank them for their comments. Consistent with most of the previous studies (Han  et al. 2009), the most common cardiac involvement in patients with Behçet's disease (BD) in our study was severe aortic regurgitation. Some distinctive echocardiographic features of severe aortic insufficiency caused by BD are redundant motion of elongated aortic cusps or prolapsed aortic cusps with aneurysmal changes, vegetation-like mobile lesions and an echo-free space within the annulus.
Source: Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology - Category: Radiology Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research