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Clifford Wilson
English physician, 1906-1997.
Associated eponyms:
Kimmelstiel-Wilson syndrome (Clifford Wilson)
A kidney disease characterized by hypertension, renal lesions, glomerulonephrosis, oedema, and retinopathy.
Kimmelstiel-Wilson syndrome (Clifford Wilson)
A kidney disease characterized by hypertension, renal lesions, glomerulonephrosis, oedema, and retinopathy.
Biography:
Clifford Wilson met Paul Herbert Kimmelstiel when he was visitng professor at Harvard. He later became professor of medicine at the London hospital. He was president of the Renal Association 1962–1965 and dean of the faculty of medicine during the years of 1968 to 1971.
Bibliography:
- C. Wilson and Frank Burnet Byrom:
Renal changes in malignant hypertension; experimental evidence.
The Lancet, London, 1939, 1: 136-139.
Production of hypertension in rats by constriction of one renal artery, and important studies of the renal changes produced, which included degeneration of the renal arterioles.
- C. Wilson, F.B. Byrom:
The vicious circle in Chronic Bright's disease. Experimental evidence from the hypertensive rat.
The Quarterly Journal of Medicine, Oxford, 1941, 10: 65-93.
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