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Charles Porak
French physician, born May 9, 1845, Paris; died May 27, 1921, Paris.
Associated eponyms:
Ekman-Lobstein syndrome
This rather infrequently used eponym denotes the association of brittle bones and blue sclerae, with absence of deafness. It is an inherited disorder characterised by extreme fragility of bones that begins in childhood.
Vrolik's syndrome
A congenital and lethal bone disease in which thick bones are abnormally brittle and subject to fractures.
Biography:
Charles Porak studied in Paris, became an interne under Just-Marie-Marcellin Lucas-Championnière (1843-1913), and received his doctorate in 1878. After having been chef de clinique under Jean Anne-Henri Depaul (1811-1883), he became accoucheur des hôpitaux in 1882. He headed these departments at the Hôpital Saint-Louis and the Maternité, which he modernized. He was a member of the Académie de médecine from 1894.
Bibliography:
- Considérations sur l’ictère des nouveau-nés etc.
Doctoral thesis, 1878.
- De l’absorption des médicaments par le placenta et de leur élimination par l’urine des nouveau-nés. Paris, 1878.
- De l’influence réciproqué de la grossesse et des maladies de coeur. Thèse d’agrégation, Paris, 1880.
- De l’omphalotripsie au lieu de la ligature du cordon après l’accouchement. 1889.
- Statistique des présentations du siège à propos du pronostic et du traitement de ces présentations. Bull de la Soc obstétr., 1887.
- B. Porak, G. Durante:
Les micromélies congénitales. Achondroplasie vraie et dystrophie périosteale.
Nouvelle iconographie de la Salpêtrière, Paris, 1905, 18: 181-538. Vrolik’s syndrome.
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