Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases (Mar 2021)

Clinical characteristics and risk factors of intestinal involvement in Behçet’s syndrome patients: a cross-sectional study from a single center

  • Cheng-cheng Hou,
  • Jing-fen Ye,
  • Hai-fen Ma,
  • Jian-long Guan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13023-021-01772-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

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Abstract Background Intestinal Behçet’s syndrome (BS) has high morbidity and mortality rates with serious complications. The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical characteristics and laboratory parameters of intestinal and mucocutaneous BS patients and analyze the risk factors of intestinal involvement in BS patients. Methods A retrospective analysis was used to collect the demographic data and laboratory parameters from 97 intestinal and 154 mucocutaneous BS patients. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to investigate the risk factors of intestinal involvement in BS patients. Results The most common clinical manifestations of first onset in intestinal BS patients were oral ulceration (100.00%), followed by genital ulcers (62.89%) and erythema nodule (28.87%), gastrointestinal lesions (28.87%), pseudofolliculitis (25.77%), fever (17.53%), arthritis (16.49%), ocular involvement (5.15%), while the least common were vascular involvement (2.06%) and hematologic involvement involvement (2.06%). The most common intestinal segment involved in intestinal BS patients was terminal ileum (30.9%), followed by ileocecal (18.6%), colon (15.5%). By univariate logistic regression analysis, gender, age at hospitalization, age of disease onset, BDCAF, T-SPOT, fever, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), C-reactive protein (CRP), leukocyte, erythrocyte, hemoglobin (HGB), neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, serum amyloid A, complement 3, albumin, total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein and interleukin 6 (IL-6) were found all risk factors of intestinal involvement in BS patients (P 10 mg/L), HGB ( 7 pg/ml) were found the independent risk factors of intestinal involvement in BS patients (all P 10 mg/L), HGB ( 7 pg/ml) being observed, it may reminds that the presence of intestinal involvement in BS patients.

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