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Association of IL-4 gene VNTR variant with deep venous thrombosis in Behçet's disease and its effect on ocular involvement.
Molecular vision - 1 Jan 2013
Inanir Ahmet, Tural Sengul, Yigit Serbulent, Kalkan Goknur, Pancar Gunseli Sefika, Demir Helin Deniz, Ates Omer
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Behçet's disease (BD) is a systemic vasculitis characterized by inflammatory lesions of the urogenital mucosa, eyes, skin, central nervous system, and joints. Vein thrombosis constitutes the most frequent vascular manifestation of the disease, and may cause such ocular vascular thrombotic events as central retinal vein and central retinal artery thrombosis. Thrombosis is a serious problem, and often...
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