Evaluation of disease activity in uveoretinitis associated with Behçet’s disease

Abstract

Behçet’s disease is a multi-organ inflammatory disorder with systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology. Ocular lesions occur in about 70% of patients with Behçet’s disease, and it is more frequent and severe in men. The frequency of ocular inflammatory attacks has been used as a main outcome measure to assess the efficacy of therapy on uveoretinitis in patients with Behçet’s disease. The ocular Behçet’s disease research group of Japan have recently proposed a new scoring system, Behçet’s disease ocular attack score 24 (BOS24), to assess the disease activity of ocular Behçet’s disease. This review highlights the efficacy and application of the BOS24 scoring system in clinical practice for patients with ocular Behçet’s disease. In addition, a new semi-quantitative scoring system to evaluate the degree of retinal vascular leakage on fluorescein angiography reported by our group is described.

Keywords

• behçet’s disease
• uveoretinitis
• ocular attack
• bos24
• retinal vascular leakage