Clinical analysis of Beh(c)et's disease associated with thrombosis: 76 cases reports / 中华风湿病学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the clinical characteristics of Beh(c)et's disease (BD) associated with thrombosis.Methods Medical records at Peking Union Medical College Hospital from 1993 to 2012 were reviewed to identify patients who were diagnosed as BD associated with thrombosis.Comparisons between groups were tested by t-test and x2 test.Results Seventy-six BD patients developed thrombosis which accounted for 11.5％ of 659 BD patients hospitalized during the same period.Among these 76 patients,64 were male,12 were female.The average age was (34±10) years old (range 16-66 years).The most common site of thrombosis was extremity veins (87％) including deep vein thrombosis (n=65) and superficial thrombophlebitis (n=3).The thrombosis associated with BD in a descending frequency of order was pulmonary thromboem-bolism (16 cases,21％),Venae Cavae (15 cases,20％),cerebral venous sinus (10 cases,13％),intracardiac thrombus (7 cases,9 ％),renal veins (3 cases,4％),and superior mesenteric vein (2 cases,3％).Only four patients with single site thrombosis,all the others had two or more sites of thrombosis.Extremity vein thrombosis showed a male preponderance,while cerebral venous sinus thrombosis had a female preponderance.BD patients always exhibited active disease during emergence of thrombotic events.Conclusion The incidence of thrombosis in BD patients is high and tends to occur in patients with active disease.More attention should be paid to these patients.