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Sir John Vivian Dacie
British haematologist.
Associated eponyms:
Dacie's syndrome
Massive splenomegaly of unknown aetiology.
Ham's test
The definitive test for diagnosing paroxysmal nocturnal heamoglobinuria (PNH).
Biography:
Sir John Vivian Dacie was a founding father and for decades the unchallenged guru of British haematology. He was professor of haematology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in the University of London, later becoming professor emeritus.
Bibliography:
- J. V. Dacie, Shirley Mitchell Lewis:
Practical Haematology.
6th edition. Edinburgh : Churchill Livingstone 1984. 453.pages.
- J. V. Dacie and Shirley Mitchell Lewis:
Practical Haematology.
8th ed. Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone 1995.
- P. Hillmen, S. M. Lewis, M. Bessler, L. Luzzatto, J. V. Dacie:
Natural history of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.
New England Journal of Medicine, Boston, 1995, 333: 1253-58.
- Sir John Dacie:
The Haemolytic Anaemias. Volume 5: Drug- and Chemical-Induced Haemolytic Anaemias; Paroxysmal Nocturnal Haemoglobinuria; Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn.
Third edition by Sir John Dacie. New York, Churchill Livingstone, 1999. 448 pages.
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