Oxidative stress: Correlation with Behçet's disease duration, activity and severity

Clinical significance of Angiopoietin-1 in Behcet’s disease patients with vascular involvement

“…BD clinical severity score was calculated as the sum of 1 point each for mild symptoms (oral aphthosis, genital ulcers, arthralgia and typical skin lesions such as folliculitis, erythema nodosum, and papulopustular lesions), 2 points each for moderate symptoms (anterior uveitis, arthritis, deep vein thrombosis of the legs, and gastrointestinal involvement) and 3 points each for severe disease manifestations (retinal vasculitis, posterior/panuveitis, arterial thrombosis, bowel perforation and neuro-Behçet's). Routine laboratory investigations were collected from the patients' records [15].…”

“…Radiologic evaluations, including, CT scans of the lungs and the abdomen, cranial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were performed as clinically indicated. The activity and severity of the disease were assessed as previously described [15]. The total clinical activity index score of each patient represents the numerical sum of the manifestations present only at the time of blood sampling.…”

Fatigue in rheumatic diseases

“…Behcet's disease (BD) is a chronic, systemic vasculitis affecting blood vessels of different sizes and types (87). It was reported that patients with BD have high levels of fatigue (88).…”

Protective effect of pristane on experimental autoimmune uveitis

“…A chronic oxidative stress caused by an imbalance between proand anti-oxidant molecules seems to be a common feature of the chronic inflammatory state observed in those diseases. However, a correlation between the intensity of the oxidative stress and the occurrence of uveitis has been described only in Behç et's disease [7].…”