Behçet's disease
Enfermedad de Behçet
- Date
- 1937 · confidence high
- Place
- Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Credited to
- Hulusi Behçet
- People
- 👤 Hulusi Behçet1889–1948
- Field
- Life & health
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What was discovered
The Turkish dermatologist described as a single disease the triad of oral aphthae, genital ulcers and eye inflammation, today recognised as a systemic vasculitis. It is the first disease named after a Turkish physician.
B. Adamantiades described a case in Athens in 1931, so it is sometimes called Adamantiades-Behçet disease.
What it led to
- classification of the vasculitides
- research into the disease's 'Silk Road' distribution (high prevalence from Turkey to Japan)