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Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann
German paediatrician, born February 16, 1915, Bremen.
Associated eponyms:
Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
A syndrome comprising gigantism, macroglossia and umbilical abnormalities in newborn, enlarged liver and spleen, hyperplasia of the kidney, congenital abnormalities of the urinary tract, slight microcephaly, clonic seizures, often omphalocele.
Genee-Wiedemann syndrome or disease
An extremely rare genetic multiple congenital anomalies syndrome.
Holtermüller-Wiedemann syndrome
A rare congenital syndrome in which hydrocephalus resulting from intrauterine craniosynostosis gives the skull a flattened, cloverleaf like configuration.
Maroteaux-Spranger-Wiedemann syndrome
A disturbance evident at birth characterized in childhood by dwarfism with normal body length and disproportionately long trunk, especially thorax, and short limbs, narrow chest, prominent joints, limited joint movement.
Proteus' syndrome
A congenital syndrome characterised by a variety of abnormalities
Spranger-Wiedemann syndrome
A syndrome of disproportionate dwarfism, short spine, brevicollis, barrel chest, pectus carinatum, genu valgum, flat face, myopia, malar hypoplasia, kyphoscoliosis, and limited joint mobility.
Stüve-Wiedemann syndrome
A rare disorder characterized by bowing of the long bones, short stature, camptodactyly, respiratory distress, episodes of unexplained hyperthermia, growth and mental retardation.
Weyers' syndrome II
A syndrome of multiple anomalies of hands, feet, and face, and mild shortness of stature.
Wiedemann's dysmelia syndrome
An embryopathic malformation syndrome occurring in newborns of mothers who took thalidomide during pregnancy.
Wiedemann-Rautenstrauch syndrome
A syndrome characterised by intrauterine growth retardation, low birth weight, failure to thrive, short stature, widely open cranial sutures, a progeria-like appearance, hypotonia, pseudohydrocephalus, lipoatrophy, and mental retardation.
Wiedemann-Spranger disease
A very rare hereditary form of congenital skeletal dysplasia, of unknown aetiology and mode of transmission, characterized mainly by pseudorachitic long bone metaphyses and micromelic dwarfism.
Wiedemann-Tolksdorf syndrome
A syndrome of mental retardation, delayed speech development, accelerated growth, peculiar sheep-like facies, and deformities of the fingers and toes.
Biography:
The choice of an academic career came naturally to Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann. His father was a medical practitioner and many members of his mothers family had been university lecturers. He attended the Old Gymnasium in Bremen and studied medicine at the universities of Freiburg, Munich, Hamburg, Lausanne and Jena, qualifying in 1940. Due to ill health Wiedemann was exempted from military service, and he specialised in paediatrics. By the end of the Second World War, he was a senior consultant in Bremen. After holding posts in Bonn, Munster and Krefeld, he was appointed in 1961 to the chair of paediatrics at the University of Kiel. He held this tenure with distinction until his retirement in 1980.
Wiedemann is remembered for having delineated a number of genetic disorders, and in 1961 he was one of the first to draw attention to the thalidomide catastrophe, postulating an exogenous cause.
Hans Rudolf Wiedemann was a man of broad interests. With his wife Gisela, he was an ardent collector of autographs. In 1984 he wrote a philosophically oriented book on these topics entitled Altersbriefe bedeutender Menschen and in 1987 he published a collection of sensitive poems and letters concerning children.
Bibliography:
- Zweihundertfünfzig Gedichte aus drei Jahrhunderten in Handschriften und Textabruck mit Porträts der Autoren. 1987. 490 pages.
- Briefe im Hitlerreich. Politische Aussagen zwischen Vater und Sohn.
Lübeck, Dräger Druck, 1989.
- Briefe großer Naturforscher und Ärzte in Handschriften. Mit Textabdruck und Porträts der Autoren. Lübeck, Dräger Druck, 1989.
- Briefe und Albumblätter großer Komponisten und Interpreten in Handschriften. Mit Textabdruck und Porträts der Autoren.
Lübeck, Dräger Druck, 1990.
- Längs des Weges. Gedichte eines Kinderarztes aus fünfzig Jahren.
Lübeck, Dräger Druck, 1994.
- Homosexuell. Stuttgart, Kreuz-Verlag, 1995.
- Langlebigkeit und geistige Vitalität. Dräger Druck GmbH, 1997.
- Briefe europäischer Baumeister, Bildhauer und Maler in Handschriften.
Lübeck, Dräger Druck. 544 pages.
- Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann, Jürgen Kunze:
Atlas der Klinischen Syndrome. Für Klinik und Praxis.
Stuttgart, Schattauer, 1995. 5th edition, 2001.
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