PURPOSE Behçet's disease (BD) theoretically affects all sizes and types of blood vessels and results in multi-organ involvement. However, renal BD has not been fully characterized, though the kidneys are histologically rich in blood vessels. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 2007 patients who fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for BD were enrolled in this study. We reviewed the medical records ...

Few studies to date have been performed to investigate impulsivity and aggressivity in patients with bipolar disorder (BD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD); the primary aim of the present study was to evaluate the impact of co-morbidity of BPD on impulsivity and aggressivity in patients affected by BD. A total of 57 patients (male=20, female=37) affected by BD (BD-I 51%; BD-II 49%) in ...

OBJECTIVES Clinical studies suggest a high co-morbidity rate of borderline personality disorder (BPD) with bipolar disorder (BD). This study examines the prevalence and correlates of BPD in BD (I and II) in a longitudinal population-based survey. METHODS Data came from waves 1 and 2 (wave 2: N=34,653, 70.2% cumulative response rate; age ≥ 20 years) of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alco...

Platelet preparations promote bone regeneration by inducing cell migration, proliferation and differentiation in the area of the injury, which are essential processes for regeneration. In addition, several studies have indicated that simvastatin (SIMV), widely used for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia, stimulates osteogenesis. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of trea...

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 ...

OBJECTIVE In two related studies, we explored the prevalence of migraine and its associated clinical characteristics in patients with bipolar disorder (BD) as well as psychiatric morbidity in patients treated for migraine. METHOD The first study included 323 subjects with BD type I (BD I) or BD type II (BD II), diagnosed using the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia, Lifetime v...

BACKGROUND The primary aim of this study was to compare the differences in temperament-character traits, suicide attempts, impulsivity, and functionality levels of patients with bipolar disorder I (BD-I) and bipolar disorder II (BD-II). METHODS Fifty-two BD-I patients and 49 BD-II patients admitted to Erenköy Mental and Neurological Disease Training and Research Hospital psychiatry clinic and...

In [LSV] we defined and proved the existence of Ramanujan complexes, see also [B1], [CSZ] and [Li]. The goal of this paper is to present an explicit construction of such complexes. Our work is based on the lattice constructed by Cartwright and Steger [CS]. This remarkable discrete subgroup Γ of PGLd(F ), when F is a local field of positive characteristic, acts simply transitively on the vertice...