Acta Med. 2012, 55: 186-188

https://doi.org/10.14712/18059694.2015.44

Successful Treatment of Intracardiac and Pulmonary Thrombi in Behçet’s Disease with Oral Anticoagulant and Immunosuppressive Therapy

Uğur Canpolata, Hikmet Yorgunb, Ali Akdoğanb, Kudret Aytemira

aHacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey: Department of Cardiology
bHacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey: Department of Internal Medicine, Rheumatology Unit

Received June 28, 2012
Accepted October 29, 2012

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