|
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
|
|
|
Parinaud's oculoglandular syndrome
Also known as:
Parinaud conjunctivitis
Parinaud’s conjunctiva adenitis
Parinaud conjunctivoadenitis
Parinaud’s disease
Parinaud’s syndrome
Associated persons:
Henri Parinaud
M. Petzetakis
Description:
Syndrome of conjunctivitis, retrotarsal conjunctival granulations, regional preauricular and cervical lymphadenitis, and fever. It is almost invariably unilateral. It is a complication of cat scratch disease, by some authors considered an obsolete term for the ocular-glandular form of tularaemia. Both sexes affected; more frequent in children.
The disease picture was described by Perinaud in 1889, which is more than two decades before the agent of tularemia (Franciscella tularensis) was discovered. The American ophthalmologist Harold Gifford (1858-1929) suggested the eponymic designation in 1898.
Petzetakis’ disease is a cat-scratch disease without ocular granuloma or conjunctivitis.
Bibliography:
- H. Parinaud, Xavier Galezowski (1832-1907):
Conjunctivite infectieuse transmise par les animaux.
Annales d’oculistique, Bruxelles, 1889, 101: 252-253.
|
|
|
