Strange disease: The blood vessels float like a snake under the skin

A strange, rare disease caused the blood vessels from the chest down of a Japanese grandfather to bulge and float like a snake under the skin.

The 68-year-old grandfather went to the doctor to complain about swelling due to fluid accumulation on his legs and shortness of breath . He also suffered from pink rash - a disease that formed red round lumps under the skin, and mouth and penis ulcers for 30 years.

When the doctors at the Japanese Medical College Hospital in Saitama visited, they found veins that were dilated, rough in the chest and abdominal wall of the elderly patient. This phenomenon stems from an upper vein occlusion (SVC) - a large vein that carries blood from the body straight to the heart, located in the middle of the chest, behind the sternum.

SVC venous obstruction occurs when something blocks the flow of blood within it. The walls of thin SVC veins, which means they are easily broken.

Results of chest scans revealed, he also suffered from lower varicose veins, which carried blood from the lower body to the heart, and suffered from heart disease that limited to expand and get full blood as usual. .

Doctors eventually diagnosed patients with Behçet's disease , a rare vasculitis disease that is still unknown. Inflammation often occurs in the mouth and genitalia, leading to the two most common symptoms of the disease, as seen in his Japanese grandfather: mouth and penis ulcers.

Researchers are still confused about the cause of Behçet disease, although most experts believe this is an autoimmune syndrome in which the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue. Statistically, the disease seems to be more common in the Far East, Middle East and Mediterranean regions, such as Turkey, Iran and Israel. In particular, Turkey has the highest number of cases.