Les étiologies des méningites sont surtout infectieuses. Les causes non infectieuses, sont souvent de diagnostic difficile et incertain, tel est le cas de la maladie de Behçet. Nous rapportons deux observations de patients ayant présenté des épisodes récurrents de méningite. Dans un premier temps, la suspicion d’une étiologie infectieuse a conduit à introduire un traitement anti-infectieux prob...

Neuro-Behçet disease (NBD) is a multisystem inflammatory disorder characterized by oral lesions, genital lesions, uveitis, and neurological deficits. If left untreated, it may lead to worsening neurological function and can be fatal. Here we present a case of a 52-year-old woman who was diagnosed with Behçet disease (BD) as a teenager and had a relatively mild disease course. Decades later afte...

Results RCTs provide evidence for rilonacept and canakinumab in CAPS, colchicine in FMF and (adeno)tonsillectomy in PFAPA syndrome. For Behçet disease, RCTs have been conducted on the effect of several drugs, including colchicine, azathioprine, cyclosporine A, interferon alfa, etanercept, sucralfate suspension and pimecrolimus. Descriptive studies suggest that NSAIDs and corticosteroids are hig...

Behçet disease is relatively rare in pediatric age group. And the bowel involvement is seen in only a small portion of Behçet disease. However, once the bowel is involved it is potentially life threatening event. We report a 15 year old boy with intestinal Behçet's disease who had a history of recurrent oral and genital ulcers for several years. He underwent right hemicolectomy under the impres...

L'atteinte médiastino-pulmonaire de la maladie de Behçet est représentée essentiellement par la thrombose de la veine cave supérieure et l'angéite pulmonaire. L'association de la maladie et du chylothorax est rare, sa prise en charge n'est pas codifiée. Nous rapportant un cas clinique concernant la survenue d'un chylothorax bilatéral secondaire à une thrombose cave supérieure dans un contexte d...

Characterised classically by the association of buccal and genital ulceration and uveitis with hypopyon, Behçet's disease has many other manifestations, amongst which the neurological ones (often referred to as Neuro-Behçet) are important in view of their frequency and their gravity. Anatomically, it produces a subacute haemorrhagic and necrotising meningo-encephalitis, which most typically eff...

BACKGROUND Hughes-Stovin syndrome is a rare entity. The aetiology of Hughes-Stovin syndrome is still unknown and the natural course of the illness is usually fatal; however it is supposed to be a clinical variant manifestation of Behçet disease. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of an 18 years old, greek male patient with Hughes-Stovin syndrome, who initially presented with deep vein throm...