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Its manifestations include recurrent oral and genital ulcers, usually accompanied by ocular symptoms such as uveitis. Other than these features, BD can affect nearly any organ system, which includes musculoskeletal involvement like arthritis, neurological complications spanning from headaches tomeningoencephalitis, and cardiac lesions such as pericarditis and myocarditis. Patients may also experience pulmonary issues like pulmonary artery aneurysms and gastrointestinal system involvement, which presents with inflammatory ulcers similar to Crohn’s disease[1]. Cardiac involvement in BD is also referred to as cardiac BD. Cardiac involvement may occur in the form of endocarditis, myocarditis, pericarditis, endomyocardial fibrosis, coronary arteritis, and valvular disease[2]. Although cardiovascular involvement in BD is rare, it is related to mortality as high as 20% at 1 year after diagnosis. Cardiac BD, if undiagnosed, can cause serious and ultimately life-threatening conditions such as coronary artery aneurysms, myocardial infarction, and intracardiac thrombosis. Almost 40% of patients with cardiac BD develop significant structural heart disease[3]. The failure to diagnose this involvement can cause a potentially manageable condition to advance into a fatal condition. Early detection and proper management of cardiovascular involvement can enhance patient prognosis. It is thus crucial to diagnose cardiovascular involvement in BD as soon as possible.  \nThe current diagnostic basis for cardiac involvement in BD includes advanced imaging modalities, primarily echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) . These techniques are considered the gold standards for visualizing structural anomalies, such as valvular lesions and coronary artery aneurysms, and for detecting tissue-level inflammation and edema through late gadolinium enhancement and T2-weighted sequences on CMR [4] .  \naDepartment of Medicine, Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan, bDepartment of Medicine, Jinnah Sindh Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan and cDepartment of Medicine, Sir Salimullah Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh Sponsorships or competing interests that may be relevant to the content are disclosed at the end of this article.  \n*Corresponding author. Address: Sir Salimullah Medical College, Dhaka 1100, [Bangladesh. E-mail: sakanbinteimran.ssmc@gmail.com](Bangladesh. E-mail: sakanbinteimran.ssmc@gmail.com) (S.B. Imran).  \nCopyright © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.  \nAnnals of Medicine & Surgery (2026) 88:1100–1101  \nReceived 7 November 2025; Accepted 19 November 2025  \nPublished online 4 December 2025  \n[http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MS9.0000000000004469](http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MS9.0000000000004469)  \nHowever, these modalities possess critical limitations in disease management. First, they are inconsistent; hence, they easily miss transient, yet damaging, flares of active myocarditis or pericarditis. As a result, diagnosis frequently occurs reactively, only taking place after significant clinical damage has built up, resulting in irreversible myocardial fibrosis or a severe event [5] . Second, the logistical and economic challenges of regular CMRand specialist echocardiographic studies render continuous monitoring impractical for most health care systems and patients. Furthermore, echocardiography is highly operator dependent and can lack the sensitivity to de","cbCaijyKyovcTnHH","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijyKyovcTnHH","pdf",167070,"English","# Background on cardiac Behçet’s disease\n## Current diagnostic standards and limitations\n# Proposed smart bio-implant monitoring approach\n## Multi-sensor sensing and telehealth integration","[{\"question\":\"What does cardiac involvement in Behçet’s disease affect and why is early detection important?\",\"answer\":\"Cardiac involvement can manifest as endocarditis, myocarditis, pericarditis, endomyocardial fibrosis, coronary arteritis, and valvular disease. 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