INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION IN BEHCETS-DISEASE

Among 103 neuro-Behcet's disease (NBD) patients seen in an 8-year peri od, 16 patients with intracranial hypertension (IH) are presented, The main underlying cause of IH was cerebral venous thrombosis (10 patien ts), and one patient showed vena cava superior thrombosis, while in th ree patients angiographies and/or MRI studies remained negative, In th e remaining two patients the investigations were not adequate to exclu de cerebral venous thrombosis, In a mean follow-up period of 5 years, three patients had one recurrence of IH, and the three cases in whom c erebral venous thrombosis could not be documented despite adequate inv estigation had frequent relapses, On follow-up, none of the patients h ad any other types of neurologic involvement, Among the other manifest ations of Behcet's disease thrombophlebitis was significantly higher, whereas uveitis was significantly lower in IH patients when compared w ith our remaining NBD patients, Intracranial hypertension is one of th e major types of neurologic involvement in Behcet's disease, and seems to have different pathogenetic implications, usually with a better ou tcome than other types of neurologic involvement.