Hans Heß (doctor)

Hans Heß , also: Hess (born November 7, 1918 in Munich ; † October 10, 2011 there ) was a German angiologist .

Life

Hess attended school in Munich and began studying medicine there in 1939, where he was part of the White Rose resistance group . After an interruption as a soldier in the Second World War, he continued his studies and in 1947 completed his specialist training in the hospital on the right of the Isar . He developed named after his daughter Irenat that a time for long hyperthyroidism was used. In 1949 he began to work as a specialist in the medical polyclinic in Munich and very soon began to deal with clinical pictures, for which the term angiology was later created. With the prize money of the Albert Fraenckel Prize of the German Society for Circulatory Research, which he received in 1959, he financed a research trip to the USA, which also took him to the Mayo Clinic .

The book "The obliterating vascular diseases" published together with Jean Kunlin, Leo Schlicht and Heinz Mittermeier was one of the first angiology books at the end of the 1950s. In 1966 and 1968, Heß conducted the annual meetings of the German Society for Angiology in Munich , of which he later became an honorary member, as well as the Austrian Society. In 1984 he left the university clinic and continued his medical practice at the Josephinum Private Clinic in Munich, which he finished at the age of 88.

Fonts (selection)

• Recent studies on the pathophysiology and therapy of obliterating vascular diseases of the large arteries of the extremities , Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1958
• Ed .: The obliterating vascular diseases with special consideration of the arterial circulatory disorders of the extremities , Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1959

Web links

• Andreas Mietaschk: Prof. Dr. Hans Hess turned 90 , in: VASA (European journal for vascular medicine) 2009, pp. 275-276