Conrad Gasser

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Conrad Gasser (born September 19, 1912 in Chur ; † August 2, 1982 in Zurich ) was a Swiss pediatrician and hematologist .

Life

The son of Eduard and Lydia Gasser (née Ribetti) graduated from the medical school in Zurich in 1937 . He began his career as a pediatrician in 1941 as an assistant to Guido Fanconi , who ran the Children's Hospital in Zurich . He completed his habilitation with the thesis The Haemolytic Syndromes in Childhood . When Fanconi retired, it was linked to the withdrawal of his senior physician Gasser from this hospital, in accordance with the academic customs of the time and the country. Gasser opened a private practice and dedicated himself to the treatment of leukemia in children.

In 1955, Conrad Gasser was one of the first to describe the haemolytic uremic syndrome, which was also called Gasser syndrome after him .

Around 1981 he was appointed a corresponding member of the Finnish Pediatric Society and at the same time elected a Fellow of the International College of Pediatrics .

Fonts

  • Results of pneumococcal typing . S. Karger, Zurich / Basel 1938.
  • Haemolytic syndromes in childhood . Thieme, Stuttgart 1951.
  • with Guido Fanconi and Walter H. Hitzig : Leukemia and leukemoid reactions in childhood . In: Handbook of the Entire Hematology , Volume 4.
  • Acute red cell aplasia and hemolytic uremic syndrome .
  • The haniolytic syndromes in childhood .
  • Long-term remissions of acute childhood leukemia . In: Medical Clinic , Vol. 50, 1964, pp. 385-393.
  • Brief demonstration: deformities after rubella in graviditate or after fetal toxoplasmosis? Demonstration of a 9 month old baby .
  • On the technology of Exchange transfusion in newborns . 1949.

literature

  • Ettore Rossi : 60th birthday of Conrad Gasser. In: Swiss Medical Weekly. September 16, 1972.
  • Walter H. Hitzig : Conrad Gasser 1912–1982. In: Swiss Medical Weekly. October 16, 1982.
  • Conrad Gasser. In: Walter H. Hitzig: Chronicle of the hematological-immunological department of the University Children's Hospital Zurich 1945–1989 (= New Year's Gazette of the Natural Research Society in Zurich NGZH. Vol. 217). NGZH Secretariat, Vogelsang 2015, pp. 19–27 ( online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stuart H. Orkin , David G. Nathan, David Ginsburg, A. Thomas Look: Nathan and Oski's hematology of infancy and childhood, Volume 1, p. 10 . Elsevier Health Sciences, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4160-3430-8 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ↑ See PMID 13274004
  3. ^ Gasser syndrome . In: Pschyrembel. Clinical Dictionary . 261st edition. deGruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019126-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Gasser, Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss pediatrician and hematologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Chur
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1982
Place of death Zurich