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Ferdinando Micheli
Italian clinician, born January 12, 1872, Carrara; died 1936.
Associated eponyms:
Rietti-Greppi-Micheli syndrome
A no longer commonly used term for heterozygous thalassaemia.
Rietti-Greppi-Micheli syndrome II
This term has been used to designate a group of the hereditary haemopathic syndromes.
Strübing-Marchiafava-Micheli syndrome
A rare autoimmune blood disorder with insidious onset and chronic course, marked by intravascular haemolytic anaemia usually with attacks of nocturnal paroxysmal haemoglobinuria.
Biography:
Ferdinando Micheli was a student of Camillo Bozzolo (1845-1920) in Torino and received his doctorate in 1895. He then received further education under Edmund von Neusser (1852-1912) and Anton Weichselbaum (1845-1920) at Vienna. He was assistant, later aiuto at the medical clinic in Torino, where he was habilitated in 1907. In 1912 he assumed the chair of medical pathology at Siena, 1917 in Florence, and 1921 the chair of clinical medicine at Torino, where he was also director of the university medical clinic. His work concerns pernicious anaemia, haemolytic icterus, paroxysmal haemoglobinuria, encephalitis epidemica, immunity problems in tuberculosis, endocarditis lenta, renal diabetes, etc. He rapidly gained international recognition for his work on congenital haemolytical anaemias and his advocation of splenectomy.
Bibliography:
- Le splenomegalie primitive. With Camillo Bozzolo. Torino, 1910.
- Lezioni di clinica medica. Torino, 1927.
- L'uso di sieri di convalescenti. La Ricerca Scientifica, 1933, 1: 350.
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