Eli Moschcowitz

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Eli Moschcowitz (born August 2, 1879 in Girált , Sáros County , Hungary , † February 23, 1964 in New York City ) was an American doctor and university professor. He was the first to describe thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), also known as Moschcowitz syndrome .

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Moschcowitz was born in Hungary , his parents emigrated to the United States in the first years of his life . He studied medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons until 1900 . After a one-year research stay with Ludwig Pick , he worked at the Beth Israel Hospital and the Mount Sinai Hospital . He was Director of Mount Sinai Hospital and Professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1945 he retired.

In 1911 he described the eosinophilia associated with anaphylactic reactions , in 1924 the thrombotic-thrombocytopenic purpura , also known as Moschcowitz syndrome, and in 1927 pulmonary hypertension .

He was the brother of surgeon Alexis Victor Moschcowitz .

Fonts (selection)

  • Biology of Disease. Grune and Stratton, New York 1948.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jacob Rader Marcus & Judith M. Daniels (eds.): The concise dictionary of American Jewish biography . Carlson Publications, Brooklyn ( New York ) 1994, ISBN 0926019740 , p. 449.
  2. ↑ a b Arthur H. Aufses, Barbara J. Niss: This House of Noble Deeds: The Mount Sinai Hospital, 1852-2002. New York University Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-8147-0500-1 , pp. 29f.
  3. ^ Eli Moschcowitz, MD In: Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. April 1965, 53 (2): 302. PMC 198274 (free full text).
  4. ↑ E. Moschcowitz: Eosinophilia and anaphylaxis. In: New York Medical Journal. Number 93, 1911, 15-19.
  5. ↑ E. Moschcowitz: Hyaline thrombosis of the terminal arterioles and capillaries. A now undescribed disease. In: Proceedings of the New York Pathological Society. Number 24, 1924, pp. 21-24, ISSN  0002-9343 . PMID 12996533 .
  6. ↑ E. Moschcowitz: An acute febrile pleiochromic anemia with hyaline thrombosis of the terminal arterioles and capillaries. An undescribed disease. In: Archives of Internal Medicine. Number 36, 1925, pp. 89-93. (Reprint: E. Moschcowitz: An acute febrile pleiochromic anemia with hyaline thrombosis of the terminal arterioles and capillaries: an undescribed disease. 1925. In: The Mount Sinai journal of medicine, New York. Volume 70, number 5, October 2003, p . 352-355, ISSN  0027-2507 . PMID 14631522. )
  7. ^ E. Moschcowitz: Hypertension of the pulmonary circulation: Its causes, dynamics, and relation to other circulatory states. In: The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. Number 174, 1927, pp. 388-406.
personal data
SURNAME Moschcowitz, Eli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American doctor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Girált , Sáros County , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1964
Place of death New York City