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