Other Reports
Algeria
Guenane et al, 2006, studied 24 patients with Behcet's disease to investigate the role IFN-gamma, IL-12, IL-10 and nitric oxide in the immunopathologic mechanisms of uveitis.
Bahrain
Ebrahim et al, 2001, found nine Bahraini cases of Behcet's disease over a 15 year period, giving a disease prevalence of 2.23 per 100,000 individuals.
[Ebrahim RA, Alawi RA, Farid E. Behcet's disease in Bahrain, clinical and HLA findings. Bahrain Med Bull. 2001; 23(1):27-9.]
Eritrea
Chaloupka et al, 2003, reported the case of a 13-year-old Eritrean boy with recurrent venous thrombosis of the dural sinus who was diagnosed with Behcet's disease.
Kuwait
Mousa et al, 1986, studied 29 cases of Behcet's disease and calculated its prevalence in the Kuwaiti population to be 1.35:100,000 individuals. It was also suggested that Kuwaiti Bedouins were resistant to the disease.
Ozoebe, 1996, carried out a case-control study and found that thrombomodulin, thrombin-antithrombin III complex and plasminogen activator inhibitor levels were significantly elevated in Behcet's patients compared to controls.
[Ozoebe OI. Soluble thrombomodulin and fibrinolysis in Behcet's disease. Med Princ Pract. 1996; 5(3): 146-50.]
Farah et al, 2006, studied 37 Arab Behcet cases and suggested that oral and genital ulcers should be looked for in patients presenting with benign intracranial hypertension.
Lebanon
Hamdan et al, 2006, carried out a retrospective review of 90 patients with Behcet's disease.
Ziade and Awada, 2006, described two cases of late-onset Behcet's disease in Lebanon. The first, a 70 year old Lebanese male, suffered from oligoarthritis, uveitis, oral ulcerations, ear chondritis, pseudofolliculitis and pustular rash, while a 72 year old Lebanese female exhibited posterior uveitis, retinal vasculitis and bipolar cutaneous ulcerations.
Arayssi et al (2009) found that KIR3DP1*001/002 prevalence was significantly different between Lebanese patients with Behcet's disease as compared to controls.
Oman
Banodkar and Al-Suwaid (1997) studied 25 Behcet patients and found that the common manifestations were oro-genital ulcers, eye and CNS involvement while the most common skin manifestation was follicular pustular eruptions.
[Banodkar DD, Al-Suwaid AF. Behcet's disease in Oman. Oman Med J. 1997; 13(4):6-13.]
El-Ageb et al, 2002, described the clinical profile of 34 patients affected with Behcet's disease.
Gowri and Nair, 2006, found Behcet's disease to be a rare cause of vulval ulcer in a perimenopausal woman.
Saudi Arabia
Al Izzi et al, 2010, described a 33-year-old Arab male with Behcet syndrome and severe idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) associated with complete atrioventricular block.
Yabuki et al, 1999, genotyped 13 Saudi Behcet patients for HLA-A and HLA-B alleles. It was found that the B51 antigen was present in a significantly higher frequency among patients than controls.
