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Behcet's Disease with Upper GI Bleeding
Introduction. Behcet's disease is a multisystem disease. In sub-Saharan Africa, the prevalence of this disease is not known, with only one case report from Ethiopia. Case Presentation. We describe a case of a 29-year-old Ethiopian male who presented to the emergency room of Tikur Anbessa specia...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7103031/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32257459 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/2983209 |
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author | Getachew, Melaku Seyoum, Nebiyou Debebe, Finot |
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description | Introduction. Behcet's disease is a multisystem disease. In sub-Saharan Africa, the prevalence of this disease is not known, with only one case report from Ethiopia. Case Presentation. We describe a case of a 29-year-old Ethiopian male who presented to the emergency room of Tikur Anbessa specialized hospital with 4 days history of back pain, recurrent history of oral and genital ulcers, right eye blindness, chronic cerebral vein thrombosis, gastrointestinal bleeding, aortic aneurysm with dissection, and positive pathergy test. He is retrospectively diagnosed with Behcet's disease according to both the International Criteria for Behcet's Disease (ICBD) and the International Study Group (ISG) consensus. Conclusion. Even if Behcet's disease is rare in sub-Saharan Africa, it is important to know the clinical presentation for timely diagnosis and urgent management. |
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spelling | pubmed-71030312020-04-01 Behcet's Disease with Upper GI Bleeding Getachew, Melaku Seyoum, Nebiyou Debebe, Finot Case Rep Emerg Med Case Report Introduction. Behcet's disease is a multisystem disease. In sub-Saharan Africa, the prevalence of this disease is not known, with only one case report from Ethiopia. Case Presentation. We describe a case of a 29-year-old Ethiopian male who presented to the emergency room of Tikur Anbessa specialized hospital with 4 days history of back pain, recurrent history of oral and genital ulcers, right eye blindness, chronic cerebral vein thrombosis, gastrointestinal bleeding, aortic aneurysm with dissection, and positive pathergy test. He is retrospectively diagnosed with Behcet's disease according to both the International Criteria for Behcet's Disease (ICBD) and the International Study Group (ISG) consensus. Conclusion. Even if Behcet's disease is rare in sub-Saharan Africa, it is important to know the clinical presentation for timely diagnosis and urgent management. Hindawi 2020-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7103031/ /pubmed/32257459 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/2983209 Text en Copyright © 2020 Melaku Getachew et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Getachew, Melaku Seyoum, Nebiyou Debebe, Finot Behcet's Disease with Upper GI Bleeding |
title | Behcet's Disease with Upper GI Bleeding |
title_full | Behcet's Disease with Upper GI Bleeding |
title_fullStr | Behcet's Disease with Upper GI Bleeding |
title_full_unstemmed | Behcet's Disease with Upper GI Bleeding |
title_short | Behcet's Disease with Upper GI Bleeding |
title_sort | behcet's disease with upper gi bleeding |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7103031/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32257459 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/2983209 |
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