Behcet Syndrome (Behcet's Disease) Symptoms

Symptoms of Behcet's Syndrome (Behcet Disease) is mainly oral ulcers, genital ulcers and eye inflammation (trilogy), may have skin damage (tetralogy), or violations of other organ systems.

1. oral ulcers: Clearly more than the edge of ulcer, pain, located in lips, gums, tongue or buccal mucosa on. Ulcers were round or oval, the surface of white or yellow pseudomembranous. Often multiple, generally 1 to 2 weeks after the healing, but recurrent. Some patients with persistent ulcers no cure to affect appetite. Have emerged in almost all patients with oral ulcer.

2. genital ulcer: Occur in the scrotum, penis, female labia, vaginal wall, or even the cervix, urethra. Oral ulcer and ulcer shape, but unlike recurrent oral ulcers strong. Genital inspection body can be seen after healing of ulcer or ulcer scar.

3. eye inflammation: Early performance conjunctivitis, iridocyclitis, hypopyon latter can, eye pigments panniculitis, conjunctiva, cornea and retinal hemorrhage. Eye inflammation rarely the first symptom of this disease. More than the initial emergence of the oral ulcers occurred in a few years later. Performance for the eye and orbital pain, photophobia, but also the pupil deformation, unilateral or bilateral vision affected. Caused by this disease is the leading cause of blindness. Fundus can be seen bleeding, artery and vein occlusion, optic atrophy.

4. the skin symptoms: For erythema nodosum and erythema multiforme, folliculitis, acne-like skin rashes and skin allergies. Acupuncture test (Pathergytest), with 20 or more small needles, diagonal stabbing into the skin in sterile conditions, 24 to 48 hours after the assassination of impetigo or folliculitis appeared, surrounding positive blush.

5. joint symptoms: 50% ~ 60% of patients have joint pain, can occur acute or chronic synovitis, joint swelling and bone but rare saboteurs. Large limbs, the most affected knee joints in particular.

6. the symptoms of the central nervous system: Impaired central nervous system accounted for 10% ~ 18%. Can be a headache, neck stiffness, meningitis, seizures, flaccid paralysis, sensory and movement disorders, cerebellar ataxia, cranial nerve impairment and various psychiatric symptoms. Prompted many central nervous system involvement in a serious condition, and poor prognosis.

7. venous and arterial inflammation: Almost in different parts of the large, medium and small artery and vein can be affected, but mostly for the embolization of lower extremity phlebitis, varicose veins are not uncommon. Often superior and inferior vena cava obstruction. Artery involvement and the main artery occlusion for aneurysm, and lead to finger tip necrosis, no vein disease, such as aneurysm rupture. Pulmonary hypertension caused by pulmonary involvement.

8. the symptoms of the gastrointestinal tract: Ulcer was particularly prevalent in the ileocecal junction, but also in other parts of the body, may have abdominal pain, diarrhea, bleeding, perforation, fistula, such as intestinal stenosis.

9. Others: few complicate deputy Metorchis. Pulmonary involvement may be the substance of the shadow of the lung; involved focal nephritis kidney can occur.