Behcet’s Disease / / Joanne Zeis.

• VerfasserIn: Zeis, Joanne,
• Place / Publishing House: Dulles, VA : : Mercury Learning and Information, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: MyModernHealth FAQs
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (125 p.)

Behçet’s disease is a rare, vascular autoinflammatory illness that is little understood. Using a question-and-answer format – along with illustrations and photographs – this book gives easy-to-understand explanations of common patient concerns. Detailed information is provided on causes, symptoms, complications, and treatments for Behçet’s disease. Physicians in training and/or new to the field of Behçet’s will find that included material is referenced and evidence-based, and that the book has been reviewed in advance of publication by clinicians noted in the research and treatment of Behçet’s. This book includes numerous in-text Web links to relevant information at the National Institutes of Health and other online sources. The companion disc includes informational resources and illustrations to help you better understand all of the material from the book; there are also links to international Behçet’s patient organizations and to free public-access medical journal articles about Behçet’s.FEATURES:*Includes information on Behçet’s disease in the United States and Western European countries – areas not often covered in depth in other publications*Provides descriptions of diagnostic features of Behçet’s disease*Provides information on anti-TNF (and other) medications currently in use and some orphan drug treatments under development*Includes a companion disc with figures, photographs, and Web links to references in the text and other sources of information

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 An overview of Behçet’s Disease -- CHAPTER 2 Behçet’s Disease Around the World -- CHAPTER 3 Diagnosis of Behçet’s Disease -- CHAPTER 4 Oral and Genital Sores and Other Skin Lesions -- CHAPTER 5 Eye Disease in Behçet’s -- CHAPTER 6 Behçet’s and the Nervous System -- CHAPTER 7 Behçet’s and the Gastrointestinal (GI) System -- CHAPTER 8 Behçet’s and the Ears, Nose, and Throat -- CHAPTER 9 Behçet’s and the Cardiovascular System -- CHAPTER 10 Behçet’s and the Lungs -- CHAPTER 11 Behçet’s in Families and Children -- CHAPTER 12 Behçet’s in Pregnancy and Postpartum -- CHAPTER 13 Treatments for Behçet’s Disease -- CHAPTER 14 Disability Benefi ts and Prognosis -- CHAPTER 15 Miscellaneous questions: Sleep, Vitamin D, Tattoos, Sex, Teeth, Fibromyalgia and Joints, Flu shots, and Genitourinary Issues -- About the CD-ROM -- Index