Disease assessment in behçet syndrome

Abstract

Behçet syndrome (BS) starts early and may last a long time so that the whole of the working life and the family can be compromised by the disease process. A few disease assessment measures have been studied in BS. The ones that have been developed specifically for BS are small in number, and most lack coverage for some manifestations of the disease, which may be seen with different frequencies in different parts of the world, such as gastrointestinal and neurological involvement. Eye involvement, the main cause of morbidity, still lacks good and easy to use assessment tools, while new tools are available for the assessment of skin and mucosa involvement. Efforts are ongoing for developing a validated Core Set of Outcome Measures for BS.