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Andras P. Barabas
British surgeon, born in Hungar 1934.
Associated eponyms:
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
An inherited disorder of the elastic connective tissue characterised by hypereleasticity of the skin, hypermobility of the joints due to extremely lax ligaments and tendons, poor wound healing, and cardiac defects.
Sack-Barabas syndrome
A disturbance marked by early appearance of thin, translucent skin, bowel, uteru, easy bruising, characteristic facial appearance, recurrent abdominal pain and eventual intestinal perforation, uterine rupture in pregnancy.
Biography:
Andras P. Barabas is a vascular surgeon in Suffolk, England. He was born in Hungary and attended the medical school in Budapest 1953-1956. In 1956 he took part in the Hungarian Revolution against Russia and Communism and then came to England as a refugee and joined the Manchester Medical School.
MB & ChB Manchester 1961
FRCS, Royal College of Surgeons, 1964
MD Thesis on the Heterogenicity of the Ehlers Danlos Syndrome 1967.
Bibliography:
Publications on the Ehlers Danlos Syndrome:
EDS: Description of 3 clinical types. The British Medical Journal, 1967, 2: 612.
Vascular Complications of EDS. The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, 1972, page 160. |
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