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Only few cases of cardiac conduction disturbances and arrhythmias have been reported in Behçet's disease. We recently observed the case of a 16-year-old woman with Behçet's disease in whom cardiac arrhythmia became the main clinical symptom. This observation and a review of the literature led us to the conclusion that arrhythmia could represent the clinical manifestation of an underlying myocarditis due to Behçet's disease and can be regarded as a feature of cardiac involvement of the disease.
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Mirone, L., Altomonte, L., Ferlisi, E.M. et al. Behçet's disease and cardiac arrhythmia. Clin Rheumatol 16, 99–100 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02238772
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