Valve prolapse in Behcet's disease.
- 1 July 1985
- Vol. 54 (1) , 100-101
- https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.54.1.100
Abstract
Value prolapse was diagnosed solely by echocardiography is 3 consecutive patients with Behcet''s disease. Two patients had prolapse of the posterior mitral valve leaflet, but no clinical manifestations of valve prolapse. In the 3rd patient aortic valve prolapse was associated with physical signs of aortic regurgitation and left ventricular failure. Valve prolapse in these cases may have resulted from structural and functional derangement caused by the underlying non-specific vasculitis that occurs in Behcet''s disease.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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