Yusuf Yazici - Behçet Syndrome

Editors

Yusuf Yazici , Gulen Hatemi , Emire Seyahi and Hasan Yazici

Behet Syndrome

2nd ed. 2020

Professor Hulusi Behet (18811948)

In the first edition of this textbook 10 years ago, I had the following dedication:

When I first started practicing rheumatology about 10 years ago, I got calls from patients saying that they had been diagnosed with Behets and did some searching online and saw that a Dr. Yazc had done a lot of work and research on the subject. Then they found another Dr. Yazc online working in New York. They wondered if I was the Dr. Yazc they were looking for. I would tell them that the Dr. Yazc they were looking for was my father and they would say, Close enough, well come and see you. I have tried to be close enough and hope that they have been right.

The last decade has only focused my efforts in this direction and made me appreciate how all this came about even more.

This book is dedicated to my wife Angie and daughters Esra and Leyla, also granddaughters of one of my coeditors; my father and of course my mother, neither of whom I can ever repay.

Yusuf Yazc

I would like to dedicate this book to my mentors, students and patients who have inspired me with the challenges they provided, to my parents Prof Kemal Alta and Dr. Bahriye Alta for their love and encouragement, my husband Dr. brahim Hatemi for his continuous understanding and support, and my daughters Piraye and Mehve for the joy and hope they have given.

Gulen Hatemi

My history with Behet started about 20 years ago; when I met Professor Yazc and he offered me to do the prognosis survey. Thereby, I plunged in the world of Behet. Since there were no phone number in the majority of the files, I had to go to their addresses. So I chased almost all, in almost all parts of Istanbul, somewhat obsessively, went their home, been their guest, drunk their tea, talked about their health and tried to understand them. Some went blind or disabled, some had forgotten what they had in their youth, some other were dead. Since then I devoted myself to understand this amazing disease.

I would like to dedicate this book to Hasan Yazc whom I owe my profession and critical thinking, to my husband Nurhan Seyahi and my children Larissa and Aras Seyahi.

Emire Seyahi

Preface

In this second edition of our textbook on Behet syndrome, our primary aim remains the same: to be a comprehensive and compact guide to help the clinicians from various disciplines, as well as the general physician to recognize and manage Behet syndrome.

As such, the context is mainly clinical. On the other hand, our excellent contributors, presented, discussed, and referenced what is controversial and not known. We hope Behet Syndrome will also be a valuable source of ideas and a guide to the research oriented.

We would like to thank all our contributors, new and old, to both editions of this book. We would also like to thank our mentors, who have led and shaped us into who we are today, and of course our patients; at the end of the day we hope we have been able to cure some, treat most and help all, in ways small and large.

Hasan Yazici and Yusuf Yazici

Gulen Hatemi

Emire Seyahi