Behçet’s disease (BD) is a systemic inflammatory vasculitis of unknown etiology, characterised by relapsing episode of oral aphthous ulcers, genital ulcers, cutaneous and ocular lesions

1Department of Cardiology, 2Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China. *Yan-Lin Zhu, MD *Qing-Jun Wu, MD Li-Lin Guo, MD Li-Gang Fang, MD Xiao-Wei Yan, MD Feng-Chun Zhang, MD Xuan Zhan, MD *These authors contributed equally to this work. Please address correspondence to: Prof. Xuan Zhang, Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100730, China. E-mail: [email protected] Received on March 9, 2012; accepted in revised form on July 11, 2012. Clin Exp Rheumatol 2012; 30 (Suppl. 72): S40-S45. © Copyright CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RHEUMATOLOGY 2012.