Bechet's disease: 162 cases

We report 162 cases of Behcet's disease, seen at the Internal Medicine Unit of Ibn Sina Hospital at Rabat, between January 1983 and June 1996. This series concerned 124 men ct 38 women, Moroccans, whose mean age at fir st hospitalization was 32 years, and mean age at disease onset was 26 years . Diagnosis of Behcet's disease was established on Mason and Barnes and/or International Study Group for Behcet's Disease criteria. There was a muco-cutaneous involvement in 100%, eye involvement in 50%, joi nt involvement in 45%, neurological symptoms in 43.2%, vascular involvement in 62.34%, thoracic involvement symptoms in 13%, digestive involvement in 8 cases, cardiac involvement inf patients, long term fever in 5 patients, a nd one case of amyloidosis. We compared our results to the literature and, we noticed that our series h ad an elevated frequency of neurological involvement, mostly benign intra-c ranial hypertension and deep vein thrombosis. We also found that gut involv ement was particularly low.