Treatment of Behcet's Disease: An Algorithmic Multidisciplinary Approach.

ABSTRACT: Behçet's disease (BD) is a chronic, relapsing inflammatory, multisystem disease of unknown etiology. The disease has a wide clinical spectrum of mucocutaneous lesions and ocular, vascular, articular, neurologic, gastrointestinal and cardiac involvement. Although the number of effective drugs used in the disease's treatment has increased in recent years, BD is still associated with severe morbidity because of mainly mucocutaneous, articular and ocular symptoms and an increased mortality because of large vessel, neurological, gastrointestinal and cardiac involvement. Many factors are associated with a more serious course, such as male gender and a younger age of onset. While the severity of the disease is more pronounced in the first years of the disease, it decreases in most patients after

SUBMITTER: Alpsoy E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8115406 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature