Pattern of Uveitis in a Tertiary Hospital in North Jordan and the Impact of Behcet's Disease
CONCLUSION: Autoimmune-mediated uveitis, most commonly associated with Behcet's disease and seronegative spondyloarthropathy, represents a high percentage of uveitis in our area. This implies the need for a high index of suspicion at the time of evaluation.PMID:37588519 | PMC:PMC10427226 | DOI:10.1155/2023/2076728 (Source: Journal of Ophthalmology)
Source: Journal of Ophthalmology - August 17, 2023 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Khaldoon M Alawneh Omar A Saleh Mahmoud M Smadi Fatima Kamel Ababneh Ikhlas Hamed Ali Mahmoud Areje M Smadi Diala Alawneh Source Type: research
Neuro-Behcet ’s disease misdiagnosed and treated as multiple sclerosis: a deceiving masquerader
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Source: International Journal of Neuroscience - August 11, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Hussein Algahtani Bader Shirah Hussain Almohiy Ahmad AlAlmai Source Type: research
Autoinflammatory diseases and the kidney
AbstractThe kidney represents an important target of systemic inflammation. Its involvement in monogenic and multifactorial autoinflammatory diseases (AIDs) vary from peculiar and relatively frequent manifestations to some rare but severe features that may end up requiring transplantation. The pathogenetic background is also very heterogeneous ranging from amyloidosis to non-amyloid related damage rooted in inflammasome activation. Kidney involvement in monogenic and polygenic AIDs may present as renal amyloidosis, IgA nephropathy, and more rarely as various forms of glomerulonephritis (GN), namely segmental glomeruloscler...
Source: Immunologic Research - August 1, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research
Predictive factors for cardiovascular involvement in behcet disease: A retrospective Tunisian cohort
Background and Aims: Cardiovascular involvement, also referred as angio Beh çet Disease (BD), is frequent affecting veins and arteries as well as cardiac layers. We aimed in this work to describe clinical characteristics, predictive factors and management of angio BD in the Tunisian context (Source: Atherosclerosis)
Source: Atherosclerosis - August 1, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: M. Kechida, W. Jomaa, S. Daadaa, I. Chaabene, I. Khochtali, K. Ben Hamda Source Type: research
