Behçet’s disease is known as an inflammation of the blood vessels, especially small veins throughout the body. The first to describe this disease is Turkish physician Hilosi Bhagat when he noted that some patients complain of mouth ulcers and genital area with inflammation of the eyes.
It has been noted that the disease is concentrated in some areas of the human body, namely the genital area, mouth, eyes, skin, nervous system, joints and intestines.
This disease is due to Autoimmune and autoimmune inflammation As a result of the growing immunity that the organs of the body itself, but the main cause of this process is unknown and not yet revealed. The disease is associated with genes, where it is noted that members of the family of infected people are more susceptible to the disease than the rest of the general population, and that the viral and bacterial infections have a role in the occurrence of this disease.
The disease is rare in Western Europe and the United States and is more prevalent in the “silk trade” countries around the Mediterranean, Turkey and Japan, and the incidence of the disease in these countries Is 1/10000 people .
In Iran, the ratio of males to females infected is 1:24. In Turkey, the ratio is 1:16, and the disease can affect any age of age but increases in the third decade of age (30-40 years)
Behçet disease is a rare disease. It is considered a highly immunogenic disease. In some countries Bahjat disease affects men more than women, while in other countries it is more common in women.
There is no specific reason associated with exposure to Behçet’s disease. Doctors prescribe it as a virus or a bacterium that carries the genetic traits of Behçet’s disease.
Behçet disease is a disease that affects the blood vessels with many infections accompanied by weakness of vision and difficulty in digestion and difficulty in breathing with inflammation of the lungs and inflammation and pain of the muscles, and the occurrence of many ulcers in the mucosa and the emergence of many diseases in the nervous system.
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