Objective. The aim of this study was to analyse the spectrum of echocardiographic findings in patients with cardiovascular involvement in Behcet's disease (BD) and followed up the postoperative complications. Methods. We enrolled 26 BD patients who underwent first cardiac surgery in Anzhen Hospital, Beijing, China. Medical records and echocardiographic findings were retrospectively analysed. Results. The 26 patients consisted of 4 women and 22 men. 22 (84.6%) of the patients were diagnosed with moderate/severe aortic regurgitation (AR). Some distinctive echocardiographic features with AR were observed, including prolapse of aortic cusps, vegetation- like mobile lesions, an echo-free space mimicking aortic root abscess and aortic aneurysm formation. 3 (11.5%) of the patients was diagnosed with isolated descending aortic aneurysm. 1(3.8%) of the patients was diagnosed with pulmonary artery aneurysm. BD was preoperatively diagnosed by clinicians in 20 patients. And 6 patients were diagnosed postoperatively by clinicians. In a total of 26 patients, postoperative complications occurred in 8 (30.7%) patients. The complications occurred in the 6patients diagnosed postoperatively and 2 patients diagnosed preoperatively. The postoperative complications of these patients included aortic paravalvular leakage, coronary-graft anastmotic leakage and mitral paravalvular leakage. Conclusion. The most common echocardiographic feature of cardiovascular involvement in BD is severe aortic regurgitation with prolapse of aortic cusps, vegetation-like mobile lesions, an echo-free space mimicking aortic root abscess or aortic aneurysm formation. Accurate preoperative diagno-sis of BD is beneficial to the choice of immunosuppressive therapy before and after surgery, which is likely to reduce postoperative complications especially for patients with severe lesions.
基金:
National Natural Science Foundation of China ResearchNational Natural Science Foundation of China [81671686, 81201110, 81501486]
第一作者机构:[1]Capital Med Univ, Beijing Anzhen Hosp, Dept Echocardiog, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China[2]Beijing Inst Heart Lung & Blood Vessel Dis, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Li R.,Pu L.,Sun Z.,et al.Echocardiographic findings of cardiovascular involvement in Behcet's disease and post-operative complications after cardiac surgery[J].CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RHEUMATOLOGY.2018,36(6):S103-S109.
APA:
Li, R.,Pu, L.,Sun, Z.,Wang, Y.,Liu, G....&Yang, Y..(2018).Echocardiographic findings of cardiovascular involvement in Behcet's disease and post-operative complications after cardiac surgery.CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RHEUMATOLOGY,36,(6)
MLA:
Li, R.,et al."Echocardiographic findings of cardiovascular involvement in Behcet's disease and post-operative complications after cardiac surgery".CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RHEUMATOLOGY 36..6(2018):S103-S109