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Posterior Pole Manifestations

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of Behçet’s Disease

Pelin Atmaca-Sonmez and Leyla S. Atmaca

Abstract

Behçet’s disease is among the chronic-relapsing, multisystemic inflammatory disorders that is characterized by obliterative vasculitis. The key clinical manifestations are recurrent oral aphthous ulcers, genital ulcers, uveitis, and skin lesions. The uveitis is recurrent and non-granulomatous, and most commonly panuveitis in type. Vitritis, retinal vasculitis, macular edema, retinitis, and retinal hemorrhages are common findings of ocular Behçet’s disease. The aim of the treatment in ocular Behçet’s disease is to achieve a rapid resolution of inflammation, reduce frequency and severity of attacks, and to avoid complications. There is not a standard treatment protocol. However, combination therapy is necessary in most cases.

Keywords

Behçet’s disease • Uveitis • Retinal vasculitis • Macular edema • Treatment

• Corticosteroids • Immunosuppressants

Introduction

Behçet’s disease (BD) owes its name to a Turkish dermatologist Hulusi Behçet, who described recurrent oral and genital ulcers and iridocyclitis

P. Atmaca-Sonmez, M.D. ( )

Nurlu Eye Center, Gazi Mustafa Kemal Bulvari 23-1 Kizilay, Ankara 06440, Turkey

e-mail: pelinatmacasonmez@yahoo.com

L.S. Atmaca, M.D.

Ankara University, Gazi Mustafa Kemal Bulvari 23-1 Kizilay, Ankara 06440, Turkey

e-mail: leylaatmaca@ttmail.com

as a separate clinical entity in 1937 [1], although symptoms similar to those of Behçet’s disease have been described as early as the time of Hippocrates and later by several others [2, 3]. The disease was later recognized to affect almost all systems or organs including pulmonary, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, nervous systems, as well as joints and large vessels, which suggests that it may rather be a syndrome than a disease. Nevertheless, the major characteristics of the disease is a systemic vasculitis with mucosa, skin, and eye being predominantly involved.

J.F. Arévalo (ed.), Retinal and Choroidal Manifestations of Selected Systemic Diseases,

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DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-3646-1_12, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013