Abstract: The skin hyper reactivity (SHR) as detected by the pathergy test is a common feature of Behcet's Disease (BD) in Middle East Countries and in Japan, but not in Western Countries. Yazici et al showed it's sensitivity and it's specificity. As the SHR in pathergy test is revealed by a pseudo folliculitis, it may have the same significance as the spontaneous pseudo folliculitis (PF) of BD. Thus if a patient ...
Abstract: In 225 patients with definit Behcet's Disease I5 clinical and 5 paraclinical parameters (CBC,ESR, urinalysis,B5,Pathergy test) were statistically analyzed. The chi-square test (X2) was used for the analysis of difference and P values smaller than 0.05 were accepted as a significative difference between male and female patients. Ophthalmologic manifestations were more frequent in males (80%) than females (63%),X2=7.91,0.01> P> 0.001.The difference concern specially the uveitis (73% males,55% females,X2=7.65,0.01>P>0.001). In osteoarticular ...
Abstract: The sensitivity of the 1971 preliminary criteria for the classification of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) was 90% according to Cohen et al (1), who assembled those criteria. This high degree of sensitivity was not found by other investigators (2-6). The1982 revised criteria proposed by Tan et al (7) showed a 96% sensitivity among their patients. In a recent work, Levin et al (8) compared the 1971 and the 1982 American Rheumatism ...