[Behçet's disease in Dakar (Senegal): epidemiological and clinical features]

Dakar Med. 2003;48(1):64-7.
[Article in French]

Abstract

We report epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 17 consecutives patients with Behçet disease during 26 years in Dakar(Sénégal). All the patients were black, with a mean age of 27.5 years (11- 42 years) and the disease was more common between 20 and 30 years. The sex ratio was 2.4 (12 men -5 women). The majority live in cost area (64.7). Clinical features frequencies were as follow muco-cutaneous (94.11%), ocular (58.82%) neurological (47.05%) articular (47.05) psychiatric (41.17%) vascular (35.29%) digestives (11.76%). Epidemiological characteristics of Behçet disease in Sénégal are common however, the important frequency of neuropsychiatrics manifestations is remarkable.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Behcet Syndrome / diagnosis*
  • Behcet Syndrome / epidemiology*
  • Child
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Senegal / epidemiology