Long-term treatment with cyclosporin A and coumarin in pulmonary thromboembolic Behçet's disease

J Vansteenkiste; P Van Haecke; M Demedts

Long-term treatment with cyclosporin A and coumarin in pulmonary thromboembolic Behçet's disease

Monaldi Arch Chest Dis. 1998 Apr;53(2):142-3.

Authors

J Vansteenkiste¹, P Van Haecke, M Demedts

Affiliation

¹ Dept. of Pulmonology, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium.

PMID: 9689799

Abstract

Long-term favourable effects of a treatment with both cyclosporin A and coumarin in a 35 year old Caucasian female patient with Behçet's disease, presenting with haemoptysis caused by pulmonary thromboemboli and a single major pulmonary artery aneurysm, are reported. All disease activity and complications were well controlled during 9 years of follow-up.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Aneurysm / drug therapy*
Aneurysm / etiology
Anticoagulants / therapeutic use*
Behcet Syndrome / complications*
Coumarins / therapeutic use*
Cyclosporine / therapeutic use*
Drug Therapy, Combination
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Hemoptysis / drug therapy*
Hemoptysis / etiology
Humans
Immunosuppressive Agents / therapeutic use*
Pulmonary Artery*
Pulmonary Embolism / drug therapy*
Pulmonary Embolism / etiology

Substances

Anticoagulants
Coumarins
Immunosuppressive Agents
Cyclosporine
coumarin