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Franz Chvostek
Austrian internist, born October 3, 1864, Vienna; died April 17, 1944, Burg Groppenstein, Kärnten.
Associated eponyms:
Chvostek's symptom (Franz Chvostek)
A collective term for changes of secondary hair growth occurring in chronic hepatitis.
Biography:
Franz Chvostek was the son of František Chvostek (1835-1884). He attended the University of Vienna and received his doctorate there in 1888. He worked at the internal clinics of Heinrich von Bamberger (1822-1888), Otto Kahler (1849-1893), and Edmund von Neusser (1852-1912) as well as at the psychiatric clinic under Theodor Hermann Meynert (1833-1892). In 1894 he was habilitated for internal medicine, becoming titular professor extraordinary in 1897, in 1909 titular ordinary professor. He was appointed ordinarius and chief of the III medical clinic in Vienna in 1911.
Bibliography:
- Über das Wesen der paroxysmalen Hämoglobinurie. Leipzig and Vienna, 1894.
- Morbus Basedowi und die Hyperthyreosen.
In: Enzyklopädie der inneren Medizin, Berlin, 1917.
- Ueber den respiratorischen Gaswechsel im Fieberanfall nach Injection der Koch'schen Flüssigkeit.
Written with Friedrich Kraus (1858-1936).
[Aus der medizinischen Klinik des Herrn Prof. Kahler in Wien]
Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, 1891, 4 (6): 104-107.
- Ueber den respiratoriscben Gaswechsel im Fieberanfall nach Injection der Koch'schen Flüssigkeit.
Written with F. Kraus.
[Aus der medizinischen Klinik des Herrn Prof. Kahler in Wien]
Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, 1891, 4 (7): 127-130.
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