Assessment of arterial stiffness in patients with inactive and active Behçet’s disease: comments on the article by Yilmaz et al

Hasserjian RP, et al. Rethinking Ormond’s disease: ‘idiopathic’ retroperitoneal fibrosis in the era of IgG4-related disease. Medicine (Baltimore) 2013;92:82–91. 8. Deshpande V, Zen Y, Chan JK, Yi EE, Sato Y, Yoshino T, et al. Consensus statement on the pathology of IgG4-related disease. Mod Pathol 2012;25:1181–92. 9. Aslangul E, Ranque B, Papo T. Pseudotumoral retroperitoneal fibrosis and localized vasculitis with very high serum levels of anti-PR3 ANCA. Am J Med 2003;115:250–2. 10. Hussain A, Pankhurst T, Goodall M, Colman R, Jefferis R, Savage CO, et al. Chimeric IgG4 PR3-ANCA induces selective inflammatory responses from neutrophils through engagement of Fcgamma receptors. Immunology 2009;128:236–44.

[1]  T. Celik,et al.  Mean platelet volume is associated with aortic arterial stiffness in patients with Behçet's disease without significant cardiovascular involvement , 2014, Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV.

[2]  G. Kalkan,et al.  Demographic and clinical features of 521 Turkish patients with Behçet's disease , 2014, International journal of dermatology.

[3]  G. Çelik,et al.  Assessment of arterial stiffness in patients with inactive and active Behçet’s disease , 2014, Scandinavian journal of rheumatology.

[4]  T. Celik,et al.  Aortic Arterial Stiffness is a Moderate Predictor of Cardiovascular Disease in Patients With Psoriasis Vulgaris , 2014, Angiology.

[5]  Ş. Balta,et al.  Peripheral arterial disease in patients with Behçet’s disease , 2014, Rheumatology International.

[6]  K. Sağlam,et al.  The Relationship Between Some of the Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Arterial Stiffness Parameters in Essentially Hypertensive Patients , 2013, Clinical and experimental hypertension.

[7]  Ş. Balta,et al.  Epicardial Adipose Tissue Should Be Evaluated with Other Inflammatory Markers in Patients with Subclinical Hypothyroidism , 2013, Medical Principles and Practice.

[8]  Ş. Balta,et al.  Arterial Stiffness Itself Without Other Inflammatory Markers May Not Provide Information to Clinicians , 2013, Journal of clinical hypertension.

[9]  Joshua R. Smith,et al.  Increased central arterial stiffness in hypothyroidism. , 2002, The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism.