Downhill oesophageal variceal bleeding: A rare complication in Behçet's disease-related superior vena cava syndrome.

Behçet's disease (BD) is a multisystemic disorder that involves vessels of all sizes. Superior vena cava (SVC) thrombosis is a rare complication that can lead to the development of various collateral pathways. A 31-year-old man presented with SVC syndrome.

[Myalgia in familial Mediterranean fever].

Introduction: Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by recurrent attacks of fever and painful episodes of sterile peritonitis, pleuritis and arthritis. Among rare symptoms of the disease, muscular manifestations, first described in 1945, sometimes as one of the main clinical manifestations or as its sole feature should be recognized. We present a patient with FMF in whom severe myalgia were predominant.

[Takayasu's arteritis associated with acute myeloblastic leukemia].

Introduction: We present one patient with acute myeloblastic leukemia diagnosed two months after the onset of Takayasu's arteritis.

Exegesis: A 21-year old woman with a previous history of erythema nodosum and episcleritis was admitted for a left cervical mass. Diagnostic imaging showed an aneurism of the left extracranial internal carotid and a stenosis of the left subclavian artery.

[A case of papillitis revealing primary syphilis].

Objective: Syphilitic ocular manifestations are polymorphous and usually occur during the secondary or tertiary stage of syphilis. We report a case of primary syphilis revealed by papillitis.

Design: A 22 year old man presented with blurred vision in the left eye and decreased visual acuity.

[Behçet's disease in Tunisia. Clinical study of 519 cases].

Purpose: To describe clinical characteristics of Behçet's disease in Tunisia.

Methods: It's a retrospective and multicentric study conducted by the Tunisian society of internal medicine. Inclusion criteria were those of the international study group.

[Acute pancreatitis associated with hemophagocytic syndrome in systemic lupus erythematous: a case report].

Exceptionally, acute pancreatitis and reactive hemophagocytic syndrome (RHS) are observed in the course of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). However, the association of the two conditions has never been reported before. A 31-years-old woman with a 7-year history of SLE was admitted for abdominal pain and fever.

[Intestinal lymphoma associated with Behçet disease].

The association of Behçet's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is very rare. The first case of primary intestinal lymphoma with intestinal Behçet's disease is reported. A 37 year-old woman had been treated for Behçet's disease with colchicine for 2 years.