Editorial: Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease

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International Ophthalmology is devoting a two number issue to Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada (VKH) disease. The incentive for such an issue came from the 4th Workshop and Symposium on VKH disease, held May 23rd to 25, 2005 at the Hotel Fairmont in Monte Carlo, Monaco (Picture 1). This workshop was a follow-up on workshops held in Rome, Italy (2003) and in Chiba, Japan (2001) (Picture 2) after the initial workshop that was held in 1999 at Lake Arrowhead, California. The initiative of this whole process has to be put to the credit of Professor Narsing A. Rao (USC, Los Angeles, USA) and Professor Masahiko Usui (Tokyo Medical Colloge, Tokyo, Japan) who decided to gather uveitis specialists worldwide to start a reflection group that would address all aspects of this disease first described in 1906 by the Swiss ophthalmologist Alfred Vogt and then comprehensively analyzed by two Japanese ophthalmologists, Yoshizo Koyanagi and Einosuke Harada.

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