Echocardiographic findings of cardiovascular involvement in Beh çet's disease and post-operative complications after cardiac surgery.

CONCLUSIONS: The most common echocardiographic feature of cardiovascular involvement in BD is severe aortic regurgitation with prolapse of aortic cusps, vegetation-like mobile lesions, an echo-free space mimicking aortic root abscess or aortic aneurysm formation. Accurate preoperative diagnosis of BD is beneficial to the choice of immunosuppressive therapy before and after surgery, which is likely to reduce postoperative complications especially for patients with severe lesions. PMID: 30582508 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology - Category: Rheumatology Tags: Clin Exp Rheumatol Source Type: research