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Ann Rheum Dis 2001;60:65-66 ( January )

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Intestinal permeability in Behçet's syndrome I Freskoa, V Hamuryudana, M Demirb, N Hizlic, H Saymanb, M Melikoglua, R Tunça, S Yurdakula, H Yazicia

a Department of Rheumatology, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey, b Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, c Yesilyurt State Hospital, Izmir, Turkey

Correspondence to: Dr Izzet Fresko, Yesildirek, Tarakçi Cafer Sok, Hamarat Aykin Han 16, Istanbul, Turkey 34430 freskoi{at}superonline.com

Accepted for publication 29 May 2000

OBJECTIVE---To measure the intestinal permeability in patients with Behçet's syndrome (BS) and to compare the results with those obtained from healthy and diseased controls.
METHOD---The study group comprised 34 patients with BS without known gastrointestinal disease. Ten patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), 6 with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), 17 with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and 15 healthy subjects (HC) constituted the controls. All patients received 100 µCi (3.7 MBq) of chromium-51 EDTA (51Cr-EDTA) as a radioactive tracer after a 72 hour abstinence from all drugs. The percentage of the isotope excreted in a 24 hour urinary specimen was the measure of permeability.
RESULTS---The percentage (SD) rate of excretion of 51Cr-EDTA was 4.6 (2.6) in BS, 6 (2.4) in AS, 5.2 (1.9) in IBD, 5.56 (1.78) in SLE, and 2.3 (1) in healthy controls. (Analysis of variance: f=6.4, p=0.0002. BS v HC, AS v HC, SLE v HC significant.)
CONCLUSION---The intestinal permeability in BS was significantly more than that seen among the healthy controls. Similar results in all the diseased controls cast doubt on its specificity.

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