Hughes-Stovin Syndrome

Hughes-Stovin syndrome is a rare autoimmune disorder often described as inflammation of the blood vessels, a form of vasculitis. It has no known cause and is typically characterized by multiple aneurysms in the pulmonary arteries and deep vein thromboses. It is named after the two British physicians, John Patterson Hughes and Peter George Ingle Stovin, who first described it in 1959, and is presumed to be a rare variant of Behcet's disease, which entails more general problems with the circulatory system; most patients are young adult males between the ages of 20 and 40, and common clinical presentations include fever, cough, difficulty breathing, and coughing up blood.