Clinical profile and evolution of patients with juvenile-onset Behçet's syndrome over a 25-year period : insights from the AIDA network

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Behçet's syndrome (BS) represents an understudied topic in pediatrics: the main aims of our study were to characterize demographic and clinical features of a cohort of BS patients with juvenile-onset managed in three tertiary referral centers in Italy, evaluate their evolution in the long-term, and detect any potential differences with BS patients having an adult-onset. Medical records of 64 juvenile-onset and 332 adult-onset BS followed-up over a 2-year period were retrospectively analyzed and compared. Mean age ± SD of first symptom-appearance was 10.92 ± 4.34 years with a female-to-male ratio of 1.06:1. Mucocutaneous signs were the most frequent initial manifestations, followed by uveitis. Throughout the disease course, genital aphthae (76.56%) and pseudofolliculitis (40.63%) prevailed among the mucocutaneous signs, while major organ involvement was represented by gastrointestinal and ocular involvement (43.75 and 34.38%, respectively). No significant differences emerged for both mucocutaneous signs and specific major organ involvement between juvenile-onset and adult BS patients. After excluding nonspecific abdominal pain, juvenile-onset BS patients were less frequently characterized by the development of major organ involvement (p = 0.027). Logistic regression detected the juvenile-onset as a variable associated with reduced risk of long-term major organ involvement (OR 0.495 [0.263-0.932], p = 0.029). In our cohort, juvenile-onset BS resembled the clinical spectrum of adult-onset patients. Pediatric patients with a full-blown disease at onset showed a more frequent mucocutaneous involvement. In addition, patients with juvenile-onset seemed to develop less frequently major organ involvement and had an overall less severe disease course.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

Enthalten in:

Internal and emergency medicine - 16(2021), 8 vom: 09. Nov., Seite 2163-2171

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sota, Jurgen [VerfasserIn]
Rigante, Donato [VerfasserIn]
Lopalco, Giuseppe [VerfasserIn]
Emmi, Giacomo [VerfasserIn]
Gentileschi, Stefano [VerfasserIn]
Gaggiano, Carla [VerfasserIn]
Ciarcia, Luisa [VerfasserIn]
Berlengiero, Virginia [VerfasserIn]
Mourabi, Mariam [VerfasserIn]
Ricco, Nicola [VerfasserIn]
Barneschi, Sara [VerfasserIn]
Mattioli, Irene [VerfasserIn]
Tosi, Gian Marco [VerfasserIn]
Frediani, Bruno [VerfasserIn]
Tarsia, Maria [VerfasserIn]
di Scala, Gerardo [VerfasserIn]
Vitale, Antonio [VerfasserIn]
Iannone, Florenzo [VerfasserIn]
Fabiani, Claudia [VerfasserIn]
Cantarini, Luca [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Behçet’s syndrome
Childhood
Journal Article
Pediatric age
Personalized medicine
Uveitis

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Date Completed 29.11.2021

Date Revised 18.02.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s11739-021-02725-9

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM323905501