Refractory Intestinal Behçet-Like Disease Associated with Trisomy 8 Myelodysplastic Syndrome Resolved by Parenteral Nutrition

• Published in: Case reports in gastroenterology Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 287 - 293
• Main Authors: Takahashi, Ryo, Matsubara, Yasuo, Takahashi, Satoshi, Yokoyama, Kazuaki, Ahyoung, Lim Lay, Koga, Michiko, Sakamoto, Hiroyuki, Boku, Narikazu, Shida, Dai, Yotsuyanagi, Hiroshi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland S. Karger AG 11.10.2023; Karger Publishers
• Subjects: Abdomen; Anemia; Biopsy; Blood; Bone marrow; Case Report; Case reports; Colon; Colonoscopy; Fever; Inflammation; intestinal behçet disease; myelodysplastic syndrome; Myelodysplastic syndromes; Neutropenia; Nutrition; Parenteral nutrition; Patients; Remission (Medicine); Steroids; Stroke; Tomography; trisomy 8; Ulcers; Vein & artery diseases; Intestinal Behçet disease; Parenteral nutrition; Case report; Myelodysplastic syndrome; Trisomy 8

Intestinal Behçet disease (BD), associated with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), is often refractory to treatment. An 80-year-old man with trisomy 8 MDS (refractory anemia) developed intermittent fever. Despite investigations to exclude infectious disease, autoimmune disease, and malignancy as the ca...