PURPOSE To report a patient with Behcet disease presenting with acute optic neuropathy. METHODS A 47-year-old man was admitted to the authors' clinic owing to sudden visual loss in the left eye. Ophthalmologic and systemic examinations were performed. RESULTS Visual acuity was 4/10 in the left eye. Fundus examination demonstrated swollen optic disc with blurred margins. There was relative a...

to assess the association between polymorphisms of the il-6 -174 g/c and behçet's disease (bd) in tunisian patients. dna was extracted from blood samples taken from 43 tunisian patients and 43 healthy controls. the polymorphisms were analyzed by pcr with the pcr-rflp. no significant association was found between patients and controls concerning polymorphism of il6 -174 g/c between the (allelic ...

behcet's disease (bd) is a multisystemic inflammatory disease that occurs most often between the second and fourth decade of life. patients have been reported during the first months of life and after 70 years. our objective was to determine the clinical, paraclinical and genetic characteristics of bd in patients aged < 20 and > 40 years. we conducted a comparative retrospective study including...

purpose: to evaluate the distribution of tnf-alpha promoter -1031t/c and -308g/a polymorphisms in an iranian population with behcet disease and ocular manifestation. method: we investigated the distribution of tnf-alpha promoter -1031t/c and -308g/a polymorphisms in 53 patients with behcet disease (bd) and 79 matched healthy controls, using the pcr-rflp technique. all subjects were from an iran...