OBJECTIVE Although Budd-Chiari syndrome in Japanese is usually chronic, and of unknown etiology and idiopathic, Behcet's disease is rare as an underlying disorder of Budd-Chiari syndrome in Japanese. To clarify the Behcet-induced Budd-Chiari syndrome, the clinical course and pathologic findings of patients with Behcet-induced Budd-Chiari syndrome were compared with those of patients with idiopa...

A man visited the emergency room with a headache. Brain computed tomography showed aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and multiple aneurysms. After aneurysm clipping surgery, the patient was discharged. After 5 days, he was admitted to the hospital with skin ulceration and was diagnosed with Behcet syndrome. An angiogram taken 7 weeks after aneurysmal SAH showed intracranial vasospasm. Be...

behcet’s disease is a rare immune mediated systemic vasculitis which besides it’s more frequent involvement of eyes and skin,   sometimes present with aortic pseudo aneurysm and more rarely cardiac inflammatory masses.a 51-year-old patient with behçet’s disease presented with two symptomatic aortic pseudoaneurysms concomitant with a right atrial mass. computed tomography (ct) revealed one supra...

background the behcet disease is a multisystemic disease with involvement of vessels. objectives our aim is to evaluate the frequency of carotid artery disease in asymptomatic carotid artery involvement in patients with behcet disease and compare the results with a control group. patients and methods fifty patients with behcet disease who were asymptomatic for any vascular involvement and 50 he...

background: behcet syndrome is a recurrent inflammatory disorder that frequently involves the ocular system. the purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of ocular involvement in cases of behcet's disease in babol, north of iran. methods: from april 2003 to december 2009, 100 cases of behcet's disease who were admitted at the department of ophthalmology and internal medici...