Year : 2019, Volume : 28, Issue : 2

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Endovascular repair of a dual abdominal aortic aneurysm in Behçet's disease

Elif Coşkun, Levent Altınay, Anıl Tekin, Ufuk Tütün

DOI: 10.9739/tjvs.2019.104 · Page: 120-122 · 57 Views · 1 Downloads · 1 Citations

Abstract

Behçet's disease is an inflammatory multisystemic vasculitis characterized by orogenic ulcers and ocular lesions and its etiology is still unknown. The incidence of aortic aneurysms is 2 to 6% in patients with Behçet"s disease and 18% of these aneurysms are in multiple pattern. Herein, we represent the first case of a dual true saccular abdominal aneurysm in Behçet"s disease which was treated with endovascular repair technique.

Keywords : Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Behçet"s disease; endovascular graft

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