Case Report

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

Authors

Kazuhiro Yokota¹, Yuji Akiyama¹, Kojiro Sato¹, Yasufumi Shindo¹, Yoshihiro Yoshida¹, Fumihiko Miyoshi¹, Haruhiko Akiba¹, Kyoichi Nakajima¹, Yu Asanuma¹ and Toshihide Mimura¹

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

Received:

10 January 2008

Accepted:

1 May 2008

Published online:

18 June 2008

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Abstract

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.

Key words

Arterial aneurysm - Behçet’s disease - Spontaneous hematoma - Subcapsular hematoma