Behcet's disease: A comprehensive review with a focus on epidemiology, etiology and clinical features, and management of mucocutaneous lesions

E Alpsoy - The Journal of dermatology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Behçet's disease (BD) is a chronic, relapsing, inflammatory multisystem disease of unknown
etiology. Oral ulcers, genital ulcers, cutaneous lesions, and ocular and articular involvement …

Behçet's disease: an overview of etiopathogenesis

P Leccese, E Alpsoy - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Behçet's disease (BD) is a systemic inflammatory disease with a chronic, relapsing-remitting
course of unknown etiology hallmarked predominantly by mucocutaneous lesions and …

Oral manifestations of systemic autoimmune and inflammatory diseases: diagnosis and clinical management

JW Mays, M Sarmadi, NM Moutsopoulos - Journal of Evidence Based …, 2012 - Elsevier
Context: Systemic autoimmune and inflammatory diseases often manifest oral lesions in
their earliest stages, and early diagnosis, which may be spurred by a dental examination, is …

Advances in the treatment of Behcet's disease

F Alibaz-Oner, H Direskeneli - Current rheumatology reports, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review To assess current management of Behcet's disease (BD).
Controversies on therapeutic approaches to different manifestations, whether conventional …

Sequencing of 16S rRNA reveals a distinct salivary microbiome signature in Behcet's disease

P Coit, G Mumcu, F Ture-Ozdemir, AU Unal, U Alpar… - Clinical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Behçet's disease (BD) is characterized by recurrent oro-genital ulcers, mucocutaneous
lesions, and serious organ involvement. We investigated the salivary microbiome in BD …

Behçet's syndrome

G Hatemi, Y Yazici, H Yazici - Rheumatic Disease Clinics, 2013 - rheumatic.theclinics.com
The prevalence of Behc et's syndrome (BS) is highest in Turkey (1 in 250), where it was first
described. 1, 2 The comparative prevalences in other regions are shown in Table 1 …

Etiopathogenesis of Behçet's disease with emphasison the role of immunological aberrations

VD Kapsimali, MA Kanakis, GA Vaiopoulos… - Clinical …, 2010 - Springer
Behçet's disease (BD) is a chronic multisystemic inflammatory disorder of unknown origin
consisting of oral aphthous ulcers, ocular symptoms, skin lesions, and genital ulcerations. It …

Outcome measures used in clinical trials for Behçet syndrome: a systematic review

G Hatemi, PA Merkel, V Hamuryudan, M Boers… - The Journal of …, 2014 - jrheum.org
Behçet syndrome (BS) is a multisystem vasculitis that is most active during young adulthood,
causing serious disability and significant impairment in quality of life. Differences in the …

Triggering agents and microbiome as environmental factors on Behçet's syndrome

G Mumcu, H Direskeneli - Internal and Emergency Medicine, 2019 - Springer
Environmental and other triggering factors are suggested to cause the onset and the clinical
relapses of Behçet's syndrome (BS), a multi-systemic inflammatory disorder. In this review …

[PDF][PDF] Association of salivary S. mutans colonisation and mannose-binding lectin deficiency with gender in Behçet's disease

G Mumcu, N Inanc, SZ Aydin, T Ergun… - Clinical & Experimental …, 2009 - academia.edu
Objective. The present study aimed to investigate the interactions among salivary S. mutans
colonisation, serum mannose binding lectin level (MBL), oral ulcer activity and disease …