Acupuncture treatment of unregulated glaucoma in the eye of a patient with Adamantiades-Behҫet disease.

Abstract

Adamantiades-Behҫet syndrome is a multisystemic inflammatory disease, the main characteristics of which include recurrent mouth and genital ulcers, and uveitis or retinal vasculitis. Other manifestations include central nervous system (CNS) involvement, arthritis, skin, gastrointestinal and vascular lesions. The main lesion of AdamantiadisBehcet syndrome is inflammation (vasculitis) of the vasa vasorum of large vessels.1 Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness, according to World Health Organization (WHO).2 Herein, we present the case of a 52-yearold male patient with AdamantiadesBehҫet syndrome who presented to our office for treatment-resistant glaucoma of the left eye.