title: Ocular findings in childhood-onset Behçet disease.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the demographic characteristics and ocular features of patients with childhood-onset Behçet disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  Patients for this retrospective study were selected using the data obtained from medical records of 34 patients with childhood-onset Behçet disease being followed up in the Uveitis Department of Ankara Ulucanlar Eye Education and Research Hospital between January 2003 and May 2008.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of 34 patients, 24 were boys (70.5%) and 10 were girls (29.4%). The average age of patients was 14.5 +/- 1.9 years (range, 10-16 years). Mean follow-up period was 4.5 +/- 2 years (range, 2-10 years). During the follow-up, panuveitis, posterior uveitis, and anterior uveitis were diagnosed in 18 (52.9%), 11 (32.3%), and 5 (14.7%) patients, respectively. Ocular findings included cataract in 20 patients (58.8%), posterior synechiae in 8 (23.5%), posterior capsular opacification secondary to cataract surgery in 8 (23.5%), vitreous condensation due to previous episodes of vitritis in 17 (50%), optic atrophy in 10 (29.4%), cystoid macular edema in 5 patients (14.7%), narrowed and occluded retinal vessels due to retinal periphlebitis and branched retinal vein occlusion in 2 (5.8%), neovascularization of the disk in 1 (2.9%), and phthisis bulbi in 1 patient (2.9%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Based on the results that were obtained in this series, panuveitis was the most common type of uveitis in cases with childhood-onset Behçet disease. Cataract was the most common anterior segment complication. Optic atrophy was the most common posterior segment complication. Male predominance was determined in this study.
authors.affiliation: Ankara Ulucanlar Eye Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. mcitirik@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Citirik
authors.forename: Nilufer
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Berker
authors.forename: Murat Serkan
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Songur
authors.forename: Emel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Soykan
authors.forename: Orhan
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Zilelioglu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D017668:Age of Onset; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002386:Cataract / Q000175:diagnosis; D002648:Child; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology; D014605:Uveitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D014822:Vitreous Body / Q000473:pathology