Charles Miller Fisher

Charles Miller Fisher (born December 5, 1913 in Waterloo (Ontario) , † April 14, 2012 in Albany (New York) ) was a Canadian neurologist .

In 1998 he was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame for his achievements .

Life

Fisher became known, among other things, for the description of a variant of what is now known as Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) acute polyradiculitis. The variant was described by Fisher in 1956 on the basis of three cases and was characterized by a syndrome of ophthalmoplegia , ataxia and areflexia . This variant is now commonly referred to as Miller-Fisher syndrome .

Works (selection)

M. Fisher: An unusual variant of acute idiopathic polyneuritis (syndrome of ophthalmoplegia, ataxia and areflexia). In: The New England journal of medicine . Volume 255, Number 2, July 1956, pp. 57-65. doi : 10.1056 / NEJM195607122550201 . PMID 13334797 .
CM Fisher: A lacunar stroke: the dysarthria-clumsy hand syndrome. In: Neurology . Volume 17, 1967, pp. 614-617. Full text

literature

LR Caplan, JP Mohr, RH Ackerman: In memoriam: charles miller fisher, MD (1913-2012). In: Archives of Neurology . Volume 69, Number 9, September 2012, pp. 1208-1209. doi : 10.1001 / archneurol.2012.1743 . PMID 23753916 .
WJ Koroshetz, JP Mohr, LR Caplan: C. Miller Fisher, MD (1913-2012). In: Neurology. Volume 79, 2012, pp. 969-970, doi : 10.1212 / WNL.0b013e318268474a .
JP Mohr: CM Fisher-master clinician. In: Cerebrovascular diseases . Volume 33, Number 6, 2012, pp. 594-596. doi : 10.1159 / 000339193 . PMID 22699153 .

JP Mohr, Louis R. Caplan, J. Philip Kistler: In Memoriam: C. Miller Fisher: An Appreciation . In: Stroke. 43, 2012, p. 1739, doi : 10.1161 / STROKEAHA.112.661512 . On-line

CM Fisher: C. Miller Fisher: the master of clinicopathologic correlation. Interview by Jonathan D. Trobe. In: Journal of neuro-ophthalmology. The official journal of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society. Volume 24, Number 1, March 2004, pp. 68-80. PMID 15206443 .
CM Fisher: A career in cerebrovascular disease: a personal account. In: Stroke. A journal of cerebral circulation. Volume 32, Number 11, November 2001, pp. 2719-2724. PMID 11692045 .

Web links

Video about Fisher from the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame on YouTube .
Nicholas P. Fandos: HMS Professor C. Miller Fisher Dies at 98 . Online article at The Harvard Crimson, May 2, 2012.

Individual evidence

↑ M. Fisher: An unusual variant of acute idiopathic polyneuritis (syndrome of ophthalmoplegia, ataxia and areflexia). In: The New England Journal of Medicine . Volume 255, Number 2, July 1956, pp. 57-65. doi : 10.1056 / NEJM195607122550201 . PMID 13334797 .
↑ JW Teener: Miller Fisher's syndrome. In: Seminars in neurology. Volume 32, Number 5, November 2012, pp. 512-516. doi : 10.1055 / s-0033-1334470 . PMID 23677659 .

personal data
SURNAME	Fisher, Charles Miller
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 5, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Waterloo, Ontario
DATE OF DEATH	April 14, 2012
Place of death	Albany (New York)

[1] M. Fisher: An unusual variant of acute idiopathic polyneuritis (syndrome of ophthalmoplegia, ataxia and areflexia). In: The New England Journal of Medicine . Volume 255, Number 2, July 1956, pp. 57-65. doi : 10.1056 / NEJM195607122550201 . PMID 13334797 .

[2] JW Teener: Miller Fisher's syndrome. In: Seminars in neurology. Volume 32, Number 5, November 2012, pp. 512-516. doi : 10.1055 / s-0033-1334470 . PMID 23677659 .