Evaluation of Retinal Vasculitis among Cases of Behçet Disease

Abstract

Behçet disease is a multi-system inflammatory disease, characterized by relapsing remitting inflammation. Although intraocular inflammation may involve anterior or posterior segment, the hallmark of BD is the presence of panuveitis and retinal vasculitis, and the sequelae of the posterior segment inflammation appears to be sight-threatening. Macular edema was the commonest complication of ocular affection in BD and at the same time a main reason for decrease in visual acuity followed by secondary cataract. In our study, the male-to-female ratio is 2.8:1 and the mean age at onset in our study is 35 years with a range of 18-53 years old. Regarding visual acuity (VA) 14 eyes (35.0%) had low visual acuity of less than (6/60), 21 eyes (52.5%) had VA between (6/60 – 6/12) and 5 eyes (12.5%) had good visual acuity of more than (6/12). End stage disease (no PL) was found in five eyes that means the percentage of permanent visual loss is about 9%. So, more treatment advances should be found to to protect the patients from the risk of blindness.