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John Freeman Loutit
British physician, born 1910.
Associated eponyms:
Hayem-Widal disease (Georges Fernand Isidore Widal)
A now obsolete term for a haematological disorder clinically characterised by decreased red blood count, spherocytosis, icterus, and splenomegaly.
Lederer-Brill disease
Obsolete term for an autoimmune haemolytic aneamia with extremely variable clinical features.
Loutit's syndrome
Jaundice and haemolytic anaemia associated with hyperbilirubunaemia.
Biography:
Bibliography:
- J. F. Loutit, Patrick Loudon Mollison (1914-).
Advantages of a disodium-citrate-glucose mixture as a blood preservative.
British Medical Journal, London, 1943, 2: 744-745.
This work made possible the storage of whole blood for up to three weeks.
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