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Vasculo-Behçet’s disease with non-traumatic subcapsular hematoma of the kidney and aneurysmal dilatations of the celiac and superior mesenteric arteries

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We report a patient with vasculo-Behçet’s disease treated successfully with a high dose of prednisolone. In 2002, the patient was diagnosed with vasculo-Behçet’s disease. He was admitted to our hospital because of sudden-onset right lower back pain in June 2006. Upon admission, abdominal angiography revealed aneurysmal dilatations of the celiac and superior mesenteric arteries. He was treated promptly with high-dose prednisolone, after which the aneurysms displayed no further enlargement. As we believe this case to be quite rare, we report this case with a literature review in support of this characterization.

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We thank Dr. Naoko Nishi, Department of Radiology, for radiological diagnostic support.

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  1. Department of Rheumatology and Applied Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Saitama Medical University, 38 Morohongo, Moroyama-machi, Iruma-gun, Saitama, 350-0495, Japan

    Kazuhiro Yokota, Yuji Akiyama, Kojiro Sato, Yasufumi Shindo, Yoshihiro Yoshida, Fumihiko Miyoshi, Haruhiko Akiba, Kyoichi Nakajima, Yu Asanuma & Toshihide Mimura

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Yokota, K., Akiyama, Y., Sato, K. et al. Vasculo-Behçet’s disease with non-traumatic subcapsular hematoma of the kidney and aneurysmal dilatations of the celiac and superior mesenteric arteries. Mod Rheumatol 18, 615–618 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10165-008-0091-7

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