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Table 5 Therapeutic drugs for ocular BS and intestinal BS patients

From: Clinical heterogeneity of ocular Behçet’s syndrome versus intestinal Behçet’s syndrome: a cross-sectional study from Shanghai Behçet’s syndrome database

Overall treatment

Ocular BS (n=135, %)

Intestinal BS (n=174, %)

Glucocorticoid

116 (85.9)

167 (96.0)

Sulfasalazine

0 (0.0)

104 (59.8)

Mesalazine

0 (0.0)

15 (8.6)

Colchicine

37 (27.4)

40 (23.0)

Thalidomide

128 (94.8)

150 (86.2)

Hydroxychloroquine

12 (8.9)

17 (9.8)

Cyclosporine

98 (72.6)

147 (84.5)

Tofacitinib

27 (20.0)

6 (3.4)

Cyclophosphamide

4 (3.0)

2 (1.1)

Methotrexate

2 (1.5)

1 (0.6)

Biologics

44 (32.6)

109 (62.6)