Neurological symptoms and signs in Behçet disease: a Western Turkey experience

To assess the clinical patterns of neurologic involvement and the frequencies and characteristics of different types of headaches in patients with Behçet disease. Total 530 patients with Behçet disease were evaluated for the presence of neurologic involvement and/or headache. Of the 54 patients (10....

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Published inThe Neurologist (Baltimore, Md.) Vol. 17; no. 3; p. 147
Main Authors Gökçay, Figen, Celebisoy, Neşe, Gökçay, Ahmet, Aksu, Kenan, Keser, Gökhan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.05.2011
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Adult
Age of Onset
Behcet Syndrome - complications
Behcet Syndrome - epidemiology
Behcet Syndrome - pathology
Behcet Syndrome - physiopathology
Female
Headache - etiology
Headache - physiopathology
Humans
Male
Retrospective Studies
Turkey - epidemiology
Young Adult
Turkey
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Summary:To assess the clinical patterns of neurologic involvement and the frequencies and characteristics of different types of headaches in patients with Behçet disease. Total 530 patients with Behçet disease were evaluated for the presence of neurologic involvement and/or headache. Of the 54 patients (10.2%) with neurological involvement, 36 (66.7%) had parenchymal and 16 (29%) had vascular involvement. There was a patient with optic neuropathy and another patient with peripheral nerve involvement. There were 46 patients (8.7%) with headache without any evidence of neurological involvement and 25 of them (4.7%) were diagnosed with migraine. The prevalence of neurologic involvement in our group was higher than the studies published previously from the same country. Migraine prevalence on the other hand was low.
ISSN:2331-2637
DOI:10.1097/NRL.0b013e3182173379