Talk:Behçet's disease

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[edit] Treatment section does not reflect the actual practice

There's too much emphasis on the anti TNF drugs, which are now only experimental and only used as a last resort in severe refractory uveitis. They have yet not proven effective for any other manifestation of Behcet's. Current treatment approach in Behcet's now has a basic paradigm as to whether the disease is organ/life threatening or not. For life threatening or organ threatening disease, high dose corticosteroids, cyclophosphamide, cyclosporine or azathioprine are used. Refractory uveitis is treated with interferon or infliximab if necessary. Otherwise colchicine, low dose corticostreroids in short courses or nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs are used for skin and mucosa diseasea or arthritis. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ekoraytascilar (talk • contribs) 11:48, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Is

Is Morbus Behçet Latin for 'Behçet's disease' ? -- PFHLai 03:36, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

  • It's the same thing with a Latin name. A pubmed search for the term only brings up German language articles. Zyryab 14:04, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adamantiades-Behçet's disease

I reverted a complicated cut & paste move done by Nestor's truths (talk · contribs) on 10 April. No discussion took place, and the edit histories were messed up. I'm aware the disease presently favours the Turkish protagonist (compare Crohn's disease), but unless strong Google evidence can be provided that the compound name is more popular I'd be strongly opposed to using this as per WP:NC. JFW | T@lk 02:36, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

I reverted it again for the same reasons. Also all of the resources linked to in the infobox refer to it as Behçet's disease or syndrome and none as Adamantiades-Behçet's disease. --WS 11:30, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Hey guys they even changed the name of the associations in external links to fit to that. I have reverted it What a joke. The same redirect also has been done in German. Any German speaking Wikian please correct this. MKS 15:47, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Under Causes

I found that under causes it states that Behcets disease is not hereditary. That, however is not true at all. How would the disease be passed on? It is genetic and is prevalent amoung those in the mediteranean. More than likely the disease is provoked by another strong illness. Actually, I am not trying to prove a point by saying this, I just realize that saying it is absolutly not hereditary is not true.

Imput on this would be helpful. Thanks

---Stephen

Behcet disease is associated with HLA-B51. For more details see the OMIM entry. --WS 11:34, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removing ankylosing spondylitis

I don't understand why there is a discussion of the cause of ankylosing spondylitis on the page, as it is 1) not 'fact' but debatable and 2) has nothing to do with Behçet Disease. If no-one objects I will remove this part.


I was wondering the same thing, it wanders off at a tangent and is largely incomprehensible anyway. Would support removal. Brianpie (talk) 11:30, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

I agree. While I don't know much about ankylosing spondylitis, I was very surprised to see the claim that it "is" caused by cross-reaction against a particular infection. Checking the wikipedia entry on AS, it's pretty plain that this is just a hypothesis - most diseases have seen dozens of hypotheses come and go. -Eric J. Johnson

I also Agree.. This ankylosing spondylitis discussion has no proven basis, and there's no evidence that the same applies for Behcet's. -Koray Tascilar