Polymyositis in Adamantiades-Behçet's Disease

Behçet's Disease (Adamantiades-Behçet's Disease)

Adamantiades-Behçet's disease (ABD) is characterized by starting with oral aphthous ulceration and developing of the systemic involvements. The pathogenesis of ABD is closely correlated with the genetic factors and the triggering factors which acquire delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction against oral streptococci mediated by IL-12 cytokine family. HLA-B51 is associated in more than 60% of the...

Adamantiades-Behçet's disease with inner ear involvement.

Adamantiades-Behçet's disease is a chronic recurrent inflammatory disorder involving the small and large vessels. Typical loci of manifestations are the mucous membranes, skin and eyes, as well as the joints and central nervous system. Other organs are not commonly involved. We present two patients, one with ocular and the other with mucocutaneous manifestation of Adamantiades-Behçet's disease....

Polymyositis in Chagas's disease.

Polymyositis marked the clinical onset of Chagas's disease in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis. This is unusual, although clinically unimportant muscle involvement in trypanosomiasis has been described. The plasma cell infiltrate and vascular deposition of IgM and C3 suggest that the humoral immune system may play a role in the pathogenesis of chagasic polymyositis. It is not known whether t...

Echocardiographic manifestations of Adamantiades-Behcet's disease.

Adamantiades-Behcet disease (ABD) is a multisystemic, chronic inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology with diffuse clinical manifestations including those involving the cardiovascular system. While the disease is most prevalent in the Mediterranean region, the Middle East and the Far East, its prevalence is increasing in Western countries due to migration patterns. Cardiovascular involvement ...

Immunopathogenesis Based Adamantiades- Behcet Disease Vasculitis Treatment