Main description:

Behcet's disease is a rare, vascular autoinflammatory illness that is little understood. Using a question-and-answer format - along with illustrations and photographs - this book gives easy-to-understand explanations of common patient concerns. Detailed information is provided on causes, symptoms, complications, and treatments for Behcet's disease. Physicians in training and/or new to the field of Behcet's will find that included material is referenced and evidence-based, and that the book has been reviewed in advance of publication by clinicians noted in the research and treatment of Behcet's. This book includes numerous in-text Web links to relevant information at the National Institutes of Health and other online sources. The companion disc includes informational resources and illustrations to help you better understand all of the material from the book; there are also links to international Behcet's patient organizations and to free public-access medical journal articles about Behcet's.

Features:

Includes information on Behcet's disease in the United States and Western European countries - areas not often covered in depth in other publications
Provides descriptions of diagnostic features of Behcet's disease
Provides information on anti-TNF (and other) medications currently in use and some orphan drug treatments under development
Includes a companion disc with figures, photographs, and Web links to references in the text and other sources of information

Contents:

1: An Overview of Behcet's Disease
2: Behcet's Disease Around the World
3: Diagnosis of Behcet's Disease
4: Oral and Genital Sores and Other Skin Lesions
5: Eye Disease in Behcet's
6: Behcet's and the Nervous System
7: Behcet's and the Gastrointestinal (GI) System
8: Behcet's and the Ears/Nose/Throat
9: Behcet's and the Cardiovascular System
10: Behcet's and the Lungs
11: Behcet's in Families and Children
12: Behcet's in Pregnancy and Postpartum
13: Treatments for Behcet's Disease
14: Disability Benefits and Prognosis.
15: Miscellaneous Questions.
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