Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài:Recurrent acute myocardial infarction with coronary artery aneurysm in a patient with Behçet’s disease: a case report | JOURNAL OF MEDICAL Sr CASE REPORTS Open Access Case report Recurrent acute myocardial infarction with coronary artery aneurysm in a patient with Behcet s disease a case report Sepideh Sokhanvar1 Marjaneh Karimi2 and Abdolreza Esmaeil-zadeh3 Addresses 1Cardiology Department Medical Science University Metabolic Research Center Zanjan Iran 2Rheumatology Department Medical Science University Metabolic Research Center Zanjan Iran 3Immunology Department Medical Science University Metabolic Research Center Zanjan Iran Email SS - sokhanvar@ MK - mrj_karimi@ AE - a46reza@ Corresponding author Received 21 October 2008 Accepted 13 February 2009 Published 20 August 2009 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3 8869 doi 1752-1947-3-8869 This article is available from http jmedicalcasereports article view 8869 2009 Sokhanvar et al. licensee Cases Network Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Behcet s disease is an inflammatory disorder of unknown origin with mucocutaneous ocular articular vascular gastrointestinal and central nervous system manifestations. Although cardiac involvement is not an uncommon manifestation of Behcet s disease coronary aneurysm has rarely been reported. Case presentation A 36-year-old Iranian man was admitted to our emergency department for retrosternal pain of two and a half hours duration. His detailed medical history revealed that he had no risk factors for coronary artery disease however Behcet s disease had been diagnosed about 10 years earlier. His electrocardiogram showed inferior myocardial infarction. He underwent coronary angiography that showed multiple giant aneurysms in his coronary arteries. Two months later he experienced another
