Cardiac findings in Behçet's patients

Behçet’s disease is a chronic multi‐system inflammatory disorder and the severity and clinical manifestations of Behçet’s patients may show geographic variation. We aimed to detect the cardiac findings in 30 Behçet’s patients and compare them with the normal population (n = 29). We used color‐doppler echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography in combination. We calculated manually QT intervals and QT dispersion (QTd) from twelve‐lead ECG recordings. There was no E/A inversion and coronary ischemia in all patients or control group. The E velocity difference between groups was not significant. The mean A velocity was significantly lower in Behçet’s patients than normal group. The mean DT was 154.4 ± 5.8 msec in Behçet’s patients and 122.59 ± 0.96 msec in control group (P