Main description:

Behcet's Syndrome has seen great strides over the last two decades in the availability of new treatments and the understanding of underlying pathogenesis. Only 30 years ago the majority of particularly young men with Behcet's lost total eye sight, now only a minority do. This book covers the most recent developments in the basic and clinical aspects of Behcet's Syndrome. International authorities have collaborated to offer their diverse expert knowledge on the multiple affected organs and systems, including the skin, the eye, the brain, the lungs and not the least the gastrointestinal and the locomotor systems. A special chapter is devoted to juvenile disease. The definitive resource on Behcet's Syndrome, this book is well suited for rheumatologists, dermatologists, ophthalmologists, neurologists, and health professionals caring for Behcet's patients.

Contents:

1- Introduction: Dedicated Mondays and an acquaintance based view of Behcet's Hasan Yazici2- History and diagnosisColin G. Barnes3- Epidemiology of Behcet's Syndrome (BS) and Regional Differences in Disease Expression Sebahattin Yurdakul and Yusuf Yazici4- The mucocutaneous manifestations and pathergy reaction in Behcet's diseaseM. Cem Mat, Dongsik Bang, and Melike Meliko?lu5- Eye disease in Behcet's Syndrome Yilmaz Ozyazgan and Bahram Bodaghi6- Behcet's Syndrome and The Nervous SystemAksel Siva and Shunsei Hirohata7- Vascular disease in Behcet's SyndromeVedat Hamuryudan and Melike Melikoglu8- Endothelial Dysfunction and Atherosclerosis in Behcet's SyndromeEmire Seyahi, MD, Izzet Fresko MD, and Hasan Yazici9- Locomotor System Disease in Behcet's SyndromeSebahattin Yurdakul and Gulen Hatemi10- Behcet's Disease: Gastrointestinal InvolvementJae Hee Cheon and Aykut Ferhat Celik11- Miscellaneous Manifestations of Behcet's diseaseKenneth T. Calamia and Izzet Fresko12- Juvenile Behcet's SyndromeEmire Seyahi and Huri Ozdogan13- Behcet's Disease: PathologyCuyan Demirkesen, Buge OEz, and Suha Goeksel14- Disease MechanismsHaner Direskeneli and Guher Saruhan-Direskeneli15- Genetics of Behcet's DiseaseAhmet Gul and Shigeaki Ohno16- Animal Models of Behcet's diseaseEhud Baharav, Abraham Weinberger, Felix Mor, and Ilan Krause17- Prognosis in Behcet's SyndromeEmire Seyahi and Hasan Yazici18- Disease Assessment in Behcet's Disease Gonca Mumcu, Yusuf Yazici, and M. Anne Chamberlain19- Medical Management of Behcet's SyndromeVedat Hamuryudan and Ina Koetter