Antoine Marfan
Antoine Bernard-Jean Marfan (French pronunciation: paediatrician.
He was born in
Académie de Médecine
.
In 1896, Marfan described a
hereditary disorder of connective tissue that was to become known as Marfan syndrome,[2] the term first being used by Henricus Jacobus Marie Weve (1888–1962) of Utrecht in 1931. Today, it is thought that Marfan's patient (a five-year-old girl named Gabrielle) was affected by a condition known as congenital contractural arachnodactyly, and not Marfan's syndrome.[3]
Further eponymous medical conditions named after Antoine Marfan include:
- Dennie–Marfan syndrome
- Marfan's hypermobility syndrome
- Marfan's law
- Marfan's sign
- Marfan's symptom
- Marfan–Madelung syndrome
Marfan also had interests in the paediatric aspects of tuberculosis, nutrition and diphtheria. With Jacques-Joseph Grancher (1843–1907) and Jules Comby (1853–1947), he was co-author of Traité des maladies de l’enfance. From 1913 to 1922, he was publisher of the journal Le Nourrisson.
References
- ^ Historia de la medicina - Antoine Marfan (Spanish)
- ^ Marfan, Antoine (1896). "Un cas de déformation congénitale des quartre membres, plus prononcée aux extrémitiés, caractérisée par l'allongement des os avec un certain degré d'amincissement" [A case of congenital deformation of the four limbs, more pronounced at the extremities, characterized by elongation of the bones with some degree of thinning]. Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société Médicale des Hôpitaux de Paris. 13 (3rd series): 220–226.
- Who Named It
External links
- Antoine Marfan @ Who Named It
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