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Edward Bernard Blau

Born  1931
Died  

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    American paediatrician, born 1938, Minnesota.

    Biography of Edward Bernard Blau

    Edward Bernard Blau, director of a paediatric clinic in Marshfield, Wisconsin, described the syndrome in November 1985 in a family with eleven affected members over four generations. Already in Mai the same year Douglas A. Jabs had described another family with three affected members. Edward Bernard Blau has 45 years of experience and practices in Pediatrics and Pediatric Nephrology.
     

    Bibliography

    E. B. Blau:
    •   Familial granulomatous arthritis, iritis, and rash. The Journal of Pediatrics,
        St. Louis, Missouri, November 1985, 107 (5): 689-693.

    David A. Jabs, J.L. Houk, W. B. Bias and F. C. Amett:
    •   Familial granulomatous synovitis, uveitis, and cranial neuropathies.
        The American Journal of Medicine, New York, May 1985, 78 (5): 801-804.

    M. E- Tinetti, D. I. Baker, G. McAvay, E. B. Blaus, P. Garrett, M. Gottschalk, M. L. Koch, K. Trainor, and R. I. Horwitz:
    •   A multifactorial intervention to reduce the risk of falling among elderly people
        living in the community.
        The New England Journal of Medicine, Boston, 1994, 331 (13): 821-827.

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