| A Fatal Case of Full-Blown Neuro-Behcet Disease |
| Boo Suk Na, Young Nam Kwon, Soo Jin Song, Jong Min Song, Ho Geol Woo, Dokyung Lee, and Tae-Beom Ahn |
| Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea |
| Corresponding Author:
Tae-Beom Ahn ,Tel: +82-2-958-8448 , Fax: +82-2-958-8490, Email: ricash@hanmail.net |
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Received October 21, 2014 Accepted April 20, 2015 |
| Copyright 2015 by The Korean Society of Clinical Neurophysiology |
| This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| ABSTRACT |
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We reported a 48-year-old man with Behcet disease, who presented with right hemiparesis. His first brain MRI showed multiple enhanced lesions. During the recovery, he had an episode of left 6th nerve palsy without new lesions in a follow-up MRI. Third episode was cervical myelitis, resulting in respiratory difficulty and quadriplegia without any reflexes. The myelitis was not responsive to immunotherapy. He died of respiratory failure complicated with pneumonia. This is a rare case of full-blown neuro-Behcet disease. |
| Key words:
Behcet disease, Neuro-Behcet disease, Brainstem, Spinal cord |
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