We present the case of an 18-year-old male patient with Behçet's disease who presented with dyspnoea, fever and haemoptysis. A diagnosis of right ventricular thrombosis associated with endomyocardial fibrosis, a pulmonary artery aneurysm, and cerebral vein thrombosis was made. Considering the absence of haemodynamic compromise and the risk of recurrence after surgical treatment for cardiac thro...

CLINICAL HISTORY A 37-year-old woman presented for evaluation of frequent headache. One year previously, she had a sudden severe pain (“like an axe”) in the back of the head, with maximum intensity at the onset and representing the worst headache of her life. Computed tomography of the brain and cerebrospinal fluid examination were normal. She subsequently experienced frequent headaches. She de...

PURPOSE To present a case who developed Bell's palsy while using interferon alpha 2a for Behçet uveitis. METHODS A patient with Behçet disease presented with decreased vision in his right eye. Ophthalmic examination, fundus fluorescein angiography and optical coherence tomography were performed. After developing facial paralysis while on interferon therapy, the patient was referred to our neu...

Aim and Methods. In this study, we evaluated NOS and arginase activities and their regulation during Behçet disease, a systemic chronic inflammatory disorder with uncertain etiology. The peripheral blood mononuclear cells of 36 patients and 15 control samples (PBMC) were cultured in either RPMI 1640, MEM, or DMEM complemented with 10% of FBS and antibiotics. Cultures were performed with or with...

RATIONALE Intestinal Behçet disease (intestinal BD) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) share a lot of characteristics, including genetic background, clinical manifestations, and therapeutic strategies, especially the extraintestinal manifestations, such as oral ulcers, arthralgia, eye lesions, skin lesions, etc, but the coexistence of these 2 diseases are uncommon. Behçet disease with gastroi...

To evaluate the visual outcomes of cataract surgery in patients with uveitis, and to determine risk factors for the recurrence of uveitis and postoperative complications.Eighty patients with uveitis who underwent phacoemulsification with intraocular lens (IOL) implantation were included in this retrospective study. We analyzed the following data: patient characteristics, medications used, visua...

Behçet ́s disease is a multi systemic vasculitis whose presentation does not always meet the typical triad of orogenital ulceration, skin and ocular lesions. Right ventricular thrombus, thromboembolism and pulmonary artery aneurysms are rare manifestations and associated with poor prognosis. The authors describe the clinical case of a 38 year old man with multiple admissions for respiratory infe...

background: the etiology of the behçet disease (bd) has remained obscured. there have been studies to show the association of bd to infections like herpes simplex, hepatitis, and parvovirus b19 however, the findings are rather controversial. materials and methods: we selected 55 patients with the best matched symptoms of bd and measured the loads of b19 dna in their plasma by quantitative real ...