Lorenzo Emmi
Editor

2014

From Pathogenesis to Treatment

About 30 years ago, I started to be in confidence with Behçet syndrome; at that time only a few lines in all the major texts of Internal Medicine were dedicated to this entity, not only in Italy. As I look back to those times when Dr. Ignazio Olivieri and some other friends talked to me, for the first time, about Behçet Syndrome, it seems to me extraordinary to be here writing this preface. In a few years, we have moved from those few lines to write an entire book solely on Behçet with some of the world’s leading experts in this field from all the relevant specialties, thus confirming the tremendous growing of knowledge, interest, and the social burden of this disease.