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Clinical presentations of Behcet's disease in Upper Egypt

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Infection and immunity.
Musculoskeletal disorders.

Abstract

Background: Behçet's disease (BD) is an idiopathic, chronic, relapsing, multi-systemic vasculitis characterized by recurrent oral and genital aphthous ulcers, ocular disease and skin lesions. 
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical features of Behcet's Disease in Upper Egypt.
Patients and Methods: This study is a prospective observational study that conducted during the period extended from December 2017 to September 2018 in the Rheumatology Department of Sohag University Hospital. A total of 50 patient diagnosed as Behcet was included in the study.
Results: The results of this study cleared that, the higher symptoms were oral ulcer 50 (100 %), followed by genital ulcer 44 (88 %), the skin lesions appeared in 40 (80 %) and ocular lesions appeared in 34 (68 %).Meanwhile, the vascular lesions appeared in 13 (26 %) and neurological manifestations occur in 5 (10%).
Conclusion: The study concluded that, the BD is a serious disease affecting human and take many forms that includes oral, genital ulcer , skin and ocular lesions which are the predominant forms in Upper Egypt while, the vascular and neurological forms are of lower incidence.

DOI

10.21608/svuijm.2021.63270.1089

Keywords

Behçet’s disease, CLINICAL FEATURES, Upper Egypt

Authors

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Ola

Last Name

Mounir

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Affiliation

Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Department, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt.

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olamonir10@gmail.com

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First Name

Esam Ahmed

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Abda

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Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Department, Faculty of Medicine - Assuit University, Assiut, Egypt.

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essamabda@hotmail.com

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First Name

Mohammed Ali

Last Name

Ismael

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Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Department, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt.

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malyismail19@gmail.com

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Volume

6

Article Issue

2

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40200

Issue Date

2023-07-01

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2021-01-17

Publish Date

2023-07-01

Page Start

340

Page End

346

Print ISSN

2735-427X

Online ISSN

2636-3402

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Original research articles

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1,520

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Publication Title

SVU-International Journal of Medical Sciences

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https://svuijm.journals.ekb.eg/

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Clinical presentations of Behcet's disease in Upper Egypt

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27 Dec 2024