Burrill Crohn
Burrill Bernard Crohn (born June 13, 1884 in New York City , † July 29, 1983 in Connecticut ) was an American doctor and the namesake of Crohn's disease .
Crohn was the grandson of Jewish immigrants who immigrated to the United States from Germany after the revolution of 1848 . His father was a petroleum dealer; Crohn had eleven siblings. His upbringing was strict and characterized by a very orthodox life. It was only after studying medicine at Columbia University that he was able to break out of tradition. In 1907 he received his doctorate in medicine.
His first position as an assistant doctor was at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Four years later he established himself as a general practitioner , but continued to work scientifically at the Mt. Sinai Hospital at the same time. His research led him into the field of gastroenterology , which at the time was only recognized from the surgical side. His research was controversial because it found that surgical interventions for duodenal ulcers often did not relieve symptoms. Rather by chance, he was able to present these results at a congress in Atlantic City in 1916 and quickly became a recognized specialist in this field. In 1925, Crohn first described a case in which ulcerative colitis degenerated into cancer.
Through tissue examinations after operations on inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn, together with his colleagues Leon Ginzburg and Gordon Oppenheimer, discovered the inflammatory bowel disease that bears his name today. In 14 patients, all of whom had been operated on at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, the pathological results were presented in detail for the first time in addition to the clinical symptoms. This first publication was entitled Regional ileitis: a pathological and clinical entity . However, the clinical picture of Crohn's disease has already been presented several times in individual cases.
At the age of 91, Burrill B. Crohn, who had long since achieved world fame, ended his work as a general practitioner.
literature
- ^ Burrill B. Crohn, Leon Ginzburg, Gordon D. Oppenheimer: Regional ileitis; a pathological and clinical entity . Journal of the American Medical Association 1932; Volume 99, pages 1323-1329.
- ↑ Sabine Schuchardt: Burrill B. Crohn remained true to his passion for a lifetime . Deutsches Ärzteblatt 2017, Volume 114, Issue 15 of April 14, 2017, page 52.
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| SURNAME | Crohn, Burrill |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Crohn, Burrill Bernhard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American doctor, second describer of Crohn's disease |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 29, 1983 |
| Place of death | Connecticut |