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Species | Mohamed Habib HoumanSummaryCountry: Tunisie Publications
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[Vena cava thrombosis in Behçet's disease. Analysis of a series of 10 cases]H Houman
Service de Medecine Interne, Hopital La Rabta, Tunis, Tunisie
Ann Med Interne (Paris) 150:587-90. 1999..To study the clinical characteristics and the evolution of vena cava thrombosis (VCT) in Behçet's disease (BD), as well as their association with other severe symptoms...
Systemic lupus erythematosus in Tunisia: demographic and clinical analysis of 100 patientsM H Houman
Department of Internal Medicine, La Rabta University Hospital, Tunis, Tunisia
Lupus 13:204-11. 2004..00001) were significantly higher in patients with positive anti beta2GP1 antibodies. The five-year survival rate in our series was 86%. The most frequent causes of death were active SLE and infections...
[Current and upcoming treatments for Behçet disease]Mohamed Habib Houman
Service de Medecine Interne, Hôpital la Rabta et Unité de recherche 02 UR 08 15, Tunis, Tunisie
Presse Med 37:e25-35. 2008..Until randomized controlled studies with these agents are conducted, however, no final judgment about their usefulness is possible...
Behçet's disease in Tunisia. Demographic, clinical and genetic aspects in 260 patientsM H Houman
Department of Internal Medicine, La Rabta Hospital, Tunis, Tunusia
Clin Exp Rheumatol 25:S58-64. 2007..To analyze demographic, clinical and genetic features of Behçet's disease (BD) in Tunisia and to compare them with other ethnic and geographic groups...
Esophageal involvement in Behcet's diseaseMohamed Habib Houman
Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital La Rabta, 1007 Tunis, Tunisia
Yonsei Med J 43:457-60. 2002..Our results suggest that the prevalence of esophageal involvement in Behcet's disease is rather high and occur even in asymptomatic patients, but that this usually does not result in specific abnormalities...
[Neurologic manifestations of Behcet's disease: analysis of a series of 27 patients]M H Houman
Service de Medecine Interne, Hopital La Rabta, 1007 Tunis, Tunisie
Rev Med Interne 23:592-606. 2002..To describe epidemiological and clinical characteristics of neurological involvement in Behçet's disease (BD) and to determine a subgroup of patients at high risk for this complication...
[Bullous amyloidosis]M H Houman
Service de Medecine Interne, Hopital La Rabta, Tunis, Tunisie
Ann Dermatol Venereol 129:299-302. 2002..Only twenty-seven cases have been reported in the literature. We report our observation of bullous amyloidosis during progression of renal amyloidosis...
[Behçet's disease associated with Crohn's disease]H Houman
Service de Medecine Interne, Tunis, Tunisie, France
Ann Med Interne (Paris) 152:480-2. 2001..The association of Behçet's disease and of Crohn's disease is exceptional, and raises a nosological problem...
[Intestinal lymphoma associated with Behçet disease]M H Houman
Service de Medecine Interne, Hopital La Rabta, 1007 Tunis, Tunisie
Ann Med Interne (Paris) 152:415-8. 2001..Cyclosporin was stopped and treatment with prednisone was instituted. The relationship between non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and immunosuppressive drugs in Behçet's disease is discussed...
Deep vein thrombosis in Behçet's diseaseM H Houman
Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital La Rabta, 1007 Tunis, Tunisia
Clin Exp Rheumatol 19:S48-50. 2001..We aimed to describe the epidemiological and clinical aspects of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in Behçet's disease (BD) and to determine the patients at high risk for this complication...
[Vertebral actinomycosis with spinal cord compression. A case report]M H Houman
Service de Medecine Interne, Hopital La Rabta, 1007 Tunis, Tunisie
Rev Med Interne 22:567-70. 2001..Vertebral involvement of actinomycosis is extremely rare and associated spinal cord compression is unusual...
Tumor necrosis factor gene polymorphisms in Tunisian patients with Behcet's diseaseMariam Kamoun
Homeostasis and Cell Dysfunction Unit Research 99 UR 08 40, Medicine University, Tunis, Tunisia
Hum Immunol 68:201-5. 2007..Therefore, the TNF molecule may have an important genetically and/or functionally implication in the pathogenesis of BD in the Tunisian population...
Protracted superficial Wegener granulomatosis in a childImed Ben Ghorbel
Department of Internal Medicine, La Rabta Hospital, Tunis, Tunisia
Dermatol Online J 13:14. 2007..C-ANCA was positive. The patient was treated with oral prednisone. Similar cutaneous and mucosal lesions developed during two relapses of the disease without renal or respiratory involvement...
[Hyperprolactinemia in systemic lupus erythematosus. A prospective study of 38 cases]Monia Smiti Khanfir
Service de Medecine Interne, Hopital la rabta tunis, Tunisie
Tunis Med 82:512-5. 2004..9 vs 18.5). CONCLUSION: Hyperprolactinaemia occurred significantly in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, but did not correlate with disease activity...
Prolactin levels in Behçet's disease: no correlation with disease manifestations and activityH Houman
Department of Internal Medicine, La Rabta University Hospital, 1007 Tuni, Tunisia
Ann Med Interne (Paris) 152:209-11. 2001..CONCLUSION: Hyperprolactinemia occurred in a small number of patients with BD and its significance remained unclear. Serum PRL level did not correlate with disease manifestations and activity...
Resistance to exogenous TGF-? effects in patients with systemic lupus erythematosusAsma Elbeldi-Ferchiou
Department of Clinical Immunology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, 13, Place Pasteur, 1002 Le belvédère, Tunis, Tunisia
J Clin Immunol 31:574-83. 2011..The present work aims to define whether resistance to TGF-? might contribute to the pathogenesis of SLE...
[Ureteral stenosis in Wegener's granulomatosis. Case report]Imed Ben Ghorbel
Service de Medecine Interne, Hopital La Rabta, 1007 Tunis, Tunisie
Presse Med 35:1659-63. 2006..Ureteral stenoses in Wegener's granulomatosis are rare. They usually involve the pelvic portion of the ureter and are caused by vasculitic lesions or granulomatous inflammation...
CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells in patients with Behçet's diseaseK Hamzaoui
Homeostasis and Cell Dysfunction Unit Research, La Rabta Hospital, Behçet s Disease Unit Reseach, Tunis, Tunisia
Clin Exp Rheumatol 24:S71-8. 2006..To investigate whether the CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cell (Treg) population, which plays important role in autoimmune diseases is related to the pathophysiology of Behçet's disease (BD)...
Toll-like-receptor gene polymorphisms in a Tunisian population with Behçet's diseaseI Ben Dhifallah
Medicine University of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
Clin Exp Rheumatol 27:S58-62. 2009..In this report, we investigated the possible association between BD patients and genetic variations within the TLR 2, 4 and 9 genes in a Tunisian population...
Serum BAFF levels and skin mRNA expression in patients with Behçet's diseaseK Hamzaoui
Department of Cell Biology, Histology and Immunology, Homeostasis and Cell Dysfunction Research Unit, Medicine University of Tunis, Rue Djebel Lakdar no 15, Tunis, Tunisia
Clin Exp Rheumatol 26:S64-71. 2008..The objective of this study was to determine serum BAFF levels and to link the results to the clinical features in patients with skin manifestations...
Risk factors of neuro-BehçetH Houman
Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital La Rabta, Tunis, Tunisia
Adv Exp Med Biol 528:143-6. 2003
MICA transmembrane region polymorphism and HLA B51 in Tunisian Behçet's disease patientsM Ben Ahmed
Laboratory of Immunology, Institut Pasteur, Tunis, Tunisia
Adv Exp Med Biol 528:225-8. 2003
Cytokine expression within mucocutaneous lesions of Behçet's disease: involvement of proinflammatory and Th1 cytokinesM Ben Ahmed
Laboratory of Immunology, Institut Pasteur, Tunis, Tunisia
Adv Exp Med Biol 528:343-6. 2003
Levels of IL-15 in serum and cerebrospinal fluid of patients with Behçet's diseaseK Hamzaoui
Homeostasis and Cell Dysfunction Unit Research, Medicine University Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
Scand J Immunol 64:655-60. 2006..Our findings suggest that IL-15 is involved in BD inflammatory process, particularly in vasculitis foci, as an elevated CSF/serum IL-15 ratio characterizes vascular cerebral lesions...
Does hyperhomocysteinemia increase the risk of thrombosis in Behçet's disease?H Houman
Department of Internal Medicine, La Rabta Hospital, Tunis, Tunisia
Adv Exp Med Biol 528:413-7. 2003
