Publications by authors named "C Damak"
Behçet's disease is a systemic vasculitis characterized by recurrent bipolar aphtosis and ophthalmic disorders. Cardiac involvement is rarely reported and could be associated to poor prognosis. Intracardiac thrombosis is exceptional and represents a therapeutic issue.
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- - Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory disease characterized by the formation of granulomas, primarily affecting multiple organ systems, but its cause remains unknown.
- - In this case, the patient exhibited unilateral central retinal vein occlusion along with granulomatous anterior uveitis, which are both symptoms of ocular sarcoidosis.
- - Systemic symptoms and additional tests ultimately confirmed the diagnosis of sarcoidosis in the patient.
Pulmonary artery aneurysm must be evoked in front of any hemoptysis in a patient with Behçet disease as it requires urgent immunosuppressive therapy and often surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPure extra-thoracic sarcoidosis is rare and poorly characterized in the literature. Herein we present features of pure extra-thoracic sarcoidosis, in comparison with sarcoidosis with intra-thoracic involvement, in a population from the south of Tunisia. Retrospective, descriptive and comparative study of the patients presenting systemic sarcoidosis and attending the Department of Internal Medicine at the Hedi Chaker University Hospital, Sfax, Tunisia, for 21 years, from January 1996 to December 2016.
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