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Louis Aimé Stéphane Révol
French haematologist, born August 1, 1905, Lyon Rhône; died April 3, 1981, Lyon.
Associated eponyms:
Glanzmann's thrombastenia
A rare congenital abnormality of blood platelets, characterized by easy bruising and excessive bleeding after trauma and epistaxis.
Mortensen's syndrome
Obsolete, no longer used term for essential thrombocythaemia, a haematological disorder characterized by prolonged bleeding time and splenomegaly, with excessive bleeding after minor trauma and at surgery.
Biography:
Louis Aimé Stéphane Révol was director of the Lyons Transfusion Centre.
We thank André Trombeta for information submitted.
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