A 74-year-old man with a history of high blood pressure, smoking, and cerebrovascular accident 6 months ago was admitted to our center for chest pain radiating to back. The blood pressure was 140/95 mmHg and pulse was 88/minute. Physical examination revealed an apical systolic murmur. Laboratory tests including evidence of Behcet disease, connective tissue disease, or autoimmune form of vasculi...

Neuro-Behcet disease is one of the clinical forms of Behcet disease. We report a case of neuro-Behcet disease mimicked a brain tumor. This case was initially considered as a brain tumor from mass lesion with edema at left basal ganglia on radiologic images. The lesion, however, was not neoplasia by pathologic diagnosis. By using steroid therapy, the size had been markedly shrunken on the follow...

background kawasaki disease (kd) is an acute febrile vasculitis of early childhood and the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children. the most important complication of kd is coronary artery aneurysm that may lead to thrombosis and myocardial infarction, occurring in 25% of untreated cases. fortunately, timely treatment decreases it to 2 - 4%. there is no specific test for the diagnos...

Autoimmune manifestations (AIMs) are common in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). This study aimed to investigate whether AIMs are associated with a specific cytogenetic abnormalities and worse survival in patients with MDS. A total of 67 MDS patients with AIMs and 134 age- and sex-matched MDS patients without AIMs, all of whom received medical care at Seoul National University Hospi...

Cyclosporine was suggested recently by Japanese workers to provoke central nervous systems symptoms in Behcet`s disease. We report 2 cases supporting this notion. Our aim is to draw the attention of physicians to such phenomenon as cyclosporine being frequently advocated in the treatment of uveitis due to Behcet`s disease.

kawasaki disease (kd) is an inflammatory multiorgan disease of unknown etiology. the most dramatic organ involved is the heart. there were a few studies about cardiac involvement and sterile pyuria. this study guides to determine if sterile pyuria is associated with coronary artery aneurysm (caa) in kd patients and to consider it as a predicting factor for coronary artery involvement. forty sev...

Background: Extracranial Carotid Artery Aneurysm is considered a therapeutic and diagnostic challenge. In an unprecedented way in the literature, we describe aneurysm originating from Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome. Case Presentation: A 25-year-old male patient came to Emergency Room of ABC University Hospital Sao Bernardo do Campo referring bilateral neck pain for 1 month, associated w...

The aims of this study are to determine anticardiolipin antibodies in patients with Sy Behcet and to determine correlation between the levels of anticardiolipin antibodies in serum in patients with clinic systemic and ocular manifestations. The study was conducted on 11 patients with Behcet disease (group I), and on 11 healthy subjects (group II). Anticardiolipin antibodies -aCL were determined...