INTRODUCTION Behcet's disease (BD) is a chronic, relapsing, systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology. AIM To measure serum ghrelin levels in BD patients and healthy controls and to investigate its association with metabolic syndrome (MetS). MATERIAL AND METHODS Thirty BD patients and 30 healthy individuals were enrolled in the study. Ghrelin levels were measured in blood samples using ELISA....

the skin hyperreactivity, detected by the pathergy test, is a well known phenomenon in behcet's disease. two different methods were used for the pathergy test. a) a needle prick, b) an intadermal injection of normal saline. in this study 83% of behcet's patients had a positive pathergy test. where as 44% was of pustule type and 39% of papule type. in 26% of patients the papule formati...

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Results Fifty six patients were included: 17 CAPS, 4 TRAPS, 5 HIDS, 18 FMF, 6 CRMO, 2 SAPHO and 4 Behcet. The median follow-up period was 2 years (0-14 years). The male/female ratio was 20/36. The median age was 2.5 years at disease onset and 4 years at diagnosis. Family history was positive in 34% of patients. Clinical manifestations included fever (79%), mucocutaneous (61%), musculoskeletal (...

Vascular involvement can be seen in up to 40% of patients with Behcet syndrome (BS), the lower-extremity vein thrombosis (LEVT) being the most common type. The aim of the current study was to compare venous Doppler findings and clinical features between BS patients with LEVT and control patients diagnosed as having LEVT due to other causes.All consecutive 78 patients (71 men, 7 women; mean age ...

Behcet's disease is a multisystemic vasculitis of unknown etiology with a chronic relapsing course. Vasculitis in Behcet's disease with predominant vascular involvement is the only vasculitis that affects both arteries and veins of any size. Involvement of the renal artery and inferior vena cava is rare among the arteries and veins, respectively. When disease affect the veins, it is in the form...