Right ventricular thrombosis as a manifestation of Behçet’s syndrome

Background: behçet's disease (bd) is a rare condition with a classic triad of oral and genital ulceration and eye disease. cardiovascular complication is a rare finding in bd. case report: in this report,we present a seventeen years old patient with a history of fever for 20 days,who developed a clot in right ventricle (rv). cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (mri) and echocardiography demonstrated a thrombosis in rv and a thoracic multi detector computed tomographic image showed pulmonary thromboembolism (pte) in patient. the patient was administered with methylprednisolone,cyclophosphamide and anticoagulant. a regular follow-up was carried out. two months later,the rv clot had disappeared on transthoracic echocardiography (tte). conclusion: in bd,early cardiac mri and echocardiography should be performed for the detection of cardiac involvement,and medical treatment is the first choice of treatment. © 2017,isfahan university of medical sciences(iums). all rights reserved.