|
Disclaimer:
Whonamedit.com does not give medical advice.
This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is meant as a general interest site only. No information found here must under any circumstances be used for medical purposes, diagnostically, therapeutically or otherwise. If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor.
|
A recommendation:
Hypography is an open community about science and all things related
|
|
|
Loutit's syndrome
Associated persons:
John Freeman Loutit
Description:
Jaundice and haemolytic anaemia associated with hyperbilirubunaemia secondary to an increase in erythrocyte and haemoglobin breakdown rates.
See also:
Dyke-Young syndrome - a chronic macrocytic type, under Sidney Campbell Dyke, English pathologist, born 1886.
Hayem-Widal syndrome - acholuric haemolytic icterus with splenomegaly, under Georges Hayem, French physician and haematologist, 1841-1933.
Lederer-Brill disease - acute febrile haemolytic anaemia, under Max Lederer, American pathologist, 1885-1952.
Bibliography:
- F. J. Loutit, P. L. Mollison:
Hemolytic icterus (acholuric jaundice), congenital and acquired.
Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology, Chichester, 1946, 58: 711-728.
|
|
|
