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John Fielding Crigler
American paediatrician, born September 11, 1919, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Associated eponyms:
Crigler-Najjar syndrome
A familial form of congenital hyperbilirubinemia associated with severe disorders of the central nervous system and resembling kernicterus (degeneration of the basal ganglia).
Najjar-Crigler icterus
Hyperbilirubinaemia in newborn in Crigler-Najjar syndrome.
Biography:
John Fielding Crigler was educated at Duke University and the Johns Hopkins School of medicine, graduating in 1943. He specialised in paediatrics and in 1955 became a member of the staff of the Children’s Hospital, Boston, where he became chief of the division of endocrinology in 1965.
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