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Myocardial Infarction and Ventricular Tachycardia in a Patient with Behcet's Disease

Abstract

Ahmed Sghaier, Sami Milouchi, Hassen Ajmi, Ali Khorchani and Sana Ouali

Behçet‘s disease is a chronic vasculitis with heterogeneous manifestation. Cardiovascular involvement, although rare, is described and of extreme severity. We report the observation of a 33-year-old man diagnosed with Behçet‘s disease complicated with a thrombosed aneurysm of the right coronary responsible of a myocardial infarction and an aneurysm of the lower LV wall admitted for management of a life threatening ventricular tachycardia with an indication of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implantation.

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