PURPOSE: To analyze chronological changes in ocular manifestations of Behçet's disease (BD) in Korean patients. METHODS: Ocular findings were retrospectively analyzed from medical records of patients diagnosed with BD between 1994 and 2010 and divided into two groups according to the date of their first visit to our ophthalmology department. Group A began care between 1994 and 2000, and Group B between 2004 and 2010. RESULTS: Fifty-six patients (83 eyes) were included in analyses. There was a significant decrease in the number of complete BD cases in Group B compared to Group A, and fewer patients had genital lesions in Group B. Mean visual acuity was better, and more patients had good vision in Group B than in Group A at the one and two year follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: The severity of BD has decreased over the past two decades, allowing BD patients with ocular involvement to have better visual prognoses.
PURPOSE: To analyze chronological changes in ocular manifestations of Behçet's disease (BD) in Korean patients. METHODS: Ocular findings were retrospectively analyzed from medical records of patients diagnosed with BD between 1994 and 2010 and divided into two groups according to the date of their first visit to our ophthalmology department. Group A began care between 1994 and 2000, and Group B between 2004 and 2010. RESULTS: Fifty-six patients (83 eyes) were included in analyses. There was a significant decrease in the number of complete BD cases in Group B compared to Group A, and fewer patients had genital lesions in Group B. Mean visual acuity was better, and more patients had good vision in Group B than in Group A at the one and two year follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: The severity of BD has decreased over the past two decades, allowing BD patients with ocular involvement to have better visual prognoses.
Authors: Claudia Fabiani; Luca Cantarini; Antonio Vitale; Francesca Della Casa; Gaafar Ragab; Ibrahim A Almaghlouth; Giuseppe Lopalco; Rosa Maria Pereira; Silvana Guerriero; Marcello Govoni; Petros P Sfikakis; Roberto Giacomelli; Francesco Ciccia; Sara Monti; Piero Ruscitti; Matteo Piga; Claudia Lomater; Abdurrahman Tufan; Daniela Opris-Belinski; Giacomo Emmi; José Hernández-Rodríguez; Ali Şahin; Gian Domenico Sebastiani; Elena Bartoloni; Nurullah Akkoç; Özgül Soysal Gündüz; Marco Cattalini; Giovanni Conti; Gulen Hatemi; Armin Maier; Paola Parronchi; Emanuela Del Giudice; Sukran Erten; Antonella Insalaco; Francesca Li Gobbi; Maria Cristina Maggio; Farhad Shahram; Valeria Caggiano; Mohamed Tharwat Hegazy; Kazi Nur Asfina; Maria Morrone; Leandro L Prado; Rosanna Dammacco; Francesca Ruffilli; Aikaterini Arida; Luca Navarini; Ilenia Pantano; Lorenzo Cavagna; Alessandro Conforti; Alberto Cauli; Elena Maria Marucco; Hamit Kucuk; Ruxandra Ionescu; Irene Mattioli; Gerard Espinosa; Olga Araújo; Burak Karkaş; Claudia Canofari; Jurgen Sota; Ahmed Hatem Laymouna; Asma A Bedaiwi; Sergio Colella; Henrique Ayres M Giardini; Valeria Albano; Andrea Lo Monaco; George E Fragoulis; Riza Can Kardas; Virginia Berlengiero; Mohamed A Hussein; Francesca Ricci; Francesco La Torre; Donato Rigante; Ewa Więsik-Szewczyk; Micol Frassi; Stefano Gentileschi; Gian Marco Tosi; Marilia Ambiel Dagostin; Ayman Abdel-Monem Ahmed Mahmoud; Maria Tarsia; Giovanni Alessio; Rolando Cimaz; Teresa Giani; Carla Gaggiano; Florenzo Iannone; Paola Cipriani; Mariam Mourabi; Veronica Spedicato; Sara Barneschi; Emma Aragona; Alberto Balistreri; Bruno Frediani Journal: Intern Emerg Med Date: 2022-07-14 Impact factor: 5.472