Felix from Winiwarter

Felix von Winiwarter (born November 28, 1852 in Vienna , † July 10, 1931 in Hollabrunn , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian doctor. Thrombangiitis obliterans (Winiwarter- Buerger syndrome) is associated with his name .

family

He was the younger brother of Alexander von Winiwarter and the cousin of Natalie Bauer-Lechner . His grandfather was the lawyer and university professor Joseph von Winiwarter .

education and profession

While he was still a student in Vienna, his work on vascular resistance in normal or inflammatory conditions appeared. After completing his medical studies at the University of Vienna , he received his doctorate here in 1876. This was followed by a brief activity at the Bamberger clinic, then until 1879 Winiwarter worked as a surgical assistant (like his brother Alexander) with Theodor Billroth at the surgical university clinic in Vienna.

After working as an assistant at Billroth, Winiwarter was employed as a secondary doctor for Leopold von Dittel until 1881 . He then took on the role of clinic director in Hollabrunn . He stayed there until his death. Since he either developed no interest in scientific work or there was no corresponding opportunity, hardly any further scientific contributions have been made since 1881.

Title page of the first description

power

The classic case description of thrombangiitis obliterans was created while he was an assistant at Billroth in Vienna. As an example, he described a case of endarteritis obliterans, the main pathological finding of which is vascular occlusion due to endothelial growth in the genital area and also pointed to involvement of venous vessels (endophlebitis).

Cross-section through the vascular opening of the posterior tibial artery that is completely closed by a thrombus

“The process, as I have described it here in arteries and veins, consists essentially in an overgrowth of the intima, which is particularly characterized by the fact that it progresses evenly towards the interior of the lumen, narrows it, and that it does not have retrograde metamorphoses but ultimately leads to the formation of a cell-rich fiber mass obliterating the lumen. (...) The process, as I have described it here, could be described as arteritis obliterans, a name Friedländer used for his growth in small and tiny vessels from the endothelia of the same. " Felix von Winiwarter 1879

Works

• The resistance of the vessel walls in normal conditions and during inflammation . 1873
• The chyle of the rabbit . Vienna 1876
• About a peculiar form of endarteritis and endophlebitis with gangrene of the foot . Arch Klin Chir 23 (1879) 202

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Winiwarter, Fel. from . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 57th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1889, p. 76 ( digitized version ).
• Eberhard J. Wormer : Angiology - Phlebology. Syndromes and their creators. Munich 1991, pp. 225-226
• P. Rentchnick: Félix von Winiwarter (1852–1931). Méd Hygiène 38 (1980) 1661
• JT Lie, RJ Mann, J. Ludwig: The brothers von Winiwarter, Alexander (1848-1917), Felix (1852-1931), and Thrombangiitis Obliterans. Mayo Clin Proc 54 (1979) 802
• Ralph H. Major: Classic Descriptions of Disease. 3rd ed. 3rd print. Springfield 1948, p. 481

Web links

• Short biography whonamedit (English)