Behcet

Behcet colitis.

Behcet disease (BD) is a chronic, multisystem, inflammatory disease characterized by variable clinical manifestations involving systemic vasculitis of both the small and large blood vessels. The majority of BD patients present with recurrent oral ulcers in combination with other manifestations of the disease, including genital ulcers, skin lesions, arthritis, uveitis, thrombophlebitis, gastroin...

[Behcet disease].

Central nervous system involvement in Behçet disease (BD) may be either parenchymal or nonparenchymal. Abnormal cerebrospinal fluid findings and parenchymal involvement are associated with a poorer prognosis. A self-antigenic role for HLA B51 has been postulated in the pathogenesis of BD. The sibling occurrence rate is 3.6%. Familial aggregation may be more pronounced among pediatric cases comp...

Neurological Manifestations in Behcet Disease

Behçet disease is a multisystem disease of unknown cause in which an inflammatory perivasculitis can arise in almost any tissue (Sakane et al., 1999). Neurologic involvement in Behçet disease was first reported by Knapp in 1941. It represented between 4-49% of manifestations of BD (Haghighi et al., 2005). There is one of the most serious causes of long term morbidity and mortality in Behçet’s D...

Immunopathogenesis Based Adamantiades- Behcet Disease Vasculitis Treatment

Ocular expressions of children behcet disease

Results Our patients were 4 to 15 years old ( average 10,78 years ). Ocular signs were found at 13 cases among 19 followed for behcet disease ( 68,4% ). The attack was bilateral in 11 cases ( 84% ). In 2 cases, ocular attack was inaugural. The uveitis was total in 3 patients, anterior in 3 others cases, intermediar in 2 cases, severe in one case. Papillar oedema was noted in 2 cases, retinian v...