Recurrent myocardial infarction associated with vasculo-Behçet's disease: a case report

Tsuboi, Kazuyuki; Tamura, Masao; Sone, Naohiko; Kaihotsu, Kenji; Tomita, Toshihiko; Azuma, Naoto; Kitano, Masayasu; Abe, K.; Tsuji, Goh; Miwa, Hiroto; Sano, Hajime

doi:10.1080/24725625.2019.1685149

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“…Therefore, Tsuboi et al recommended that it is important to administer immunosuppressive drugs, in addition to antithrombotic drugs, such as warfarin, before and after PCI in vasculo-BD to prevent relapse or exacerbation. Corticosteroids, colchicine, azathioprine, and cyclophosphamide were the most commonly used agents in previous reports [ 19 ]. Alternatively, another approach is the administration of thrombolytic therapy at the early hours of MI.…”

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Serious Right Coronary Artery Thrombosis Revealing Behçet’s Disease in a Female Patient: A Case Report

Mouedder¹,

Benbouchta²,

Ismaili³

et al. 2020

Cureus

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Although atherosclerosis remains the major cause of acute coronary syndrome, there are many other etiologies that should be taken into account, especially in young patients with no atherosclerotic risk factors. Coronary involvement is extremely rare in patients with Behçet's disease, notably in young patients. In addition, acute inferior myocardial infarction revealing Behçet's disease has rarely been reported. Through this article, we report a case of Behçet's disease with arterial involvement diagnosed after myocardial infarction resulting from thrombosis of the right coronary artery in a 50-year-old woman with no specific medical history.

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