|
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
|
|
|
Fanconi-Hegglin syndrome
Also known as:
Wassermann-positive pneumonia
Wassermann-positive pulmonary infiltration
Associated persons:
Guido Fanconi
Robert Marquard Hegglin
August Paul von Wassermann
Description:
This eponym has been used to designate a nonspecific positive serology for syphilis in cases of viral pneumonias. The syndrome consists of bronchopulmonary symptoms, roentgen signs of pulmonary inflammation with perihilar infiltration, and a positive serologic reaction for syphilis (Wassermann reaction) in a nonsyphilitic person. The syndrome frequently occurs during an epidemic of bronchopulmonary disease. Probably a peculiatr form of the ornithose virus.
Bibliography:
- G. Fanconi:
Die pseudoluetische, subakute hilifugale Bronchopneumonie des heruntergekommenen Kindes.
Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift, Basel, 1936, 66: 821-826.
- R. M. Hegglin:
Das Wassermann-positive Lungeninfiltrat.
Helvetica paediatrica acta, Basel, 1940-1941, 7: 497-527.
|
|
|
