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Headache in Behçet’s Syndrome: Review of Literature and NYU Behçet’s Syndrome Center Experience

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Headache, a common and disabling symptom in Behçet’s syndrome, may be associated with a variety of neurologic syndromes and ocular inflammation, or may present as an isolated feature. Our objective is to describe the various neurologic and ocular syndromes of Behçet’s syndrome of which headache is a symptom, and to review the features of isolated headaches in Behçet’s. We also report results of a study of headache in Behçet's syndrome patients who are followed at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, the first study of its kind in North American patients, and the first to document prevalence of both episodic and chronic daily headache in Behçet’s.

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Dr. Vijay Vishwanath, Dr. Ericka Wong, Dr. Sara Crystal, Dr. Maria Filopoulos, and Dr. Ilya Kister each declare no potential conflict of interest.

Dr. Matthew S. Robbins is a section editor for Current Pain and Headache Reports. Dr. Robbins has received honoraria from Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine and SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, and payment for manuscript preparation from MedLink Neurology and the American College of Physicians (PIER Module). Dr. Robbins has received payment for development of educational presentations, including service on speakers' bureaus, from the American Headache Society and Prova Education CME, and royalties from Headache.

Dr. Richard B Lipton is a consultant for Allergan, the American Headache Society, Autonomic Technologies, Boston Scientific, CogniMed, CoLucid, Eli Lilly, eNeura Therapeutics, Merck, Novartis, NuPathe, Vedanta, Zogenix, Alder, Bristol-Myers Squibb, ElectroCore, GlaxoSmithKline, and Nautilus. Dr. Lipton reports a grant and payment for manuscript preparation from NIH. Dr. Lipton has given expert testimony for Novartis Pharmaceuticals and has received payment for lectures from Allergan. Dr. Lipton has stock in eNeura and has had travel/accommodation expense covered by the American Headache Society.

Dr. Yusuf Yazici is a consultant for AbbVie, Celgene, BMS, Genentech, Pfizer, UCB, and Samumed, and reports grants from Celgene, BMS, and Genentech.

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Vijay Vishwanath and Ericka Wong contributed equally to this work.

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Vishwanath, V., Wong, E., Crystal, S.C. et al. Headache in Behçet’s Syndrome: Review of Literature and NYU Behçet’s Syndrome Center Experience. Curr Pain Headache Rep 18, 445 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11916-014-0445-0

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