Behcet’s Disease

• suspect Behçet’s disease in patients presenting with recurrent episodes of vasculitis that may include oral ulcerations, genital ulcerations, and eye inflammation.

• Diagnosis- presence of systemic vasculitis, as manifested by ocular (eg, uveitis, retinal vasculitis), neurologic (eg, parenchymal disease), or vascular (eg, pulmonary artery aneurysms, cerebral venous thrombosis, Budd-Chiari’s malformations) disease.

• Treatment- symptomatic local anesthetics, steroids and immunosuppressants.