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Luftu Lahut Uzman
U. S. Neurologist, 1923–1962.
Associated eponyms:
Farber's disease
Rare, inheritable, disturbance of the fatty metabolism induced by a lysosomal enzyme deficiency with accumulation of ceramide in the tissues.
Biography:
Luftu Lahut Uzman was affiliated with the Children's Hospital/Harvard University Medical School. His work concerned, among other things, Wilson's disease and neurochemistry.
We thank Andre Trombeta for information submitted.
Bibliography:
- L. Uzman and D. Denny-Brown:
Amino-aciduria in hepatolenticular degeneration (Wilson's Disease).
American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Thorofare, N.J., 1948, 215: 599-611.
- Derek Ernst Denny-Brown.
Obituary: Luftu Lahut Uzman. Transactions of the American Neurological Association, New York, 1963, 83: 302-304.
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