[Coronary aneurysm in Behcet's disease. Report of a case]. / Anévrisme coronaire au cours de la maladie de Behçet. A propos d'un cas.

Cardiac involvement is rare in Behçet's disease. The authors report the case of a young patient with Behçet's disease and multiple cardiac complications. The remarkable feature of this case was the presence of a coronary artery (first diagonal) aneurysm associated with multiple venous thromboses. Anticoagulant therapy was changed for a platelet aggregant. Surgery was not indicated because of the fragility of the vessels.

[Malignant non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the superior vena cava and the right ventricle. A case report]. / Localisation cave supérieure et ventriculaire droite d'un lymphome malin non hodgkinien. A propos d'une observation.

A 39-year old patient presented with small, sudden hemoptyses and a diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis was made on radiographic pleural and parenchymatous lesions but without bacteriological confirmation. Two years later, the patient was admitted to hospital following severe hemoptysis. Echocardiography revealed the presence of a tumour in the right ventricular outflow tract. At surgery, nodules were also resected from the superior vena cava. Histological examination of the surgical specimens suggested that the tumour was an angiosarcoma. Six months later, the patient returned complaining of a painful swelling in the left iliac fossa. Immuno-histochemical analysis of the cardiac and abdominal tumours finally concluded that it was in fact a malignant non-Hodgkinian lymphoma.