Harry F. Klinefelter
Harry Fitch Klinefelter, Jun. (March 20, 1912 in Baltimore , † February 20, 1990 ) was an American doctor and endocrinologist .
Life
Klinefelter studied at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville before moving to Johns Hopkins Medical School , from which he graduated in 1937. 1941-1942 he worked with Fuller Albright at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston . He then returned to the Johns Hopkins Medical School.
From 1943 to 1946 he served in the army and then returned to Baltimore , where he became an associate professor of medicine in 1966 .
Klinefelter dealt in particular with rheumatic diseases , endocrinology and the drug treatment of alcoholism .
In 1942, together with EC Reifenstein and Fuller Albright, he first described the clinical signs of Klinefelter syndrome (also Klinefelter-Reifenstein-Albright syndrome), which was then named after him.
Klinefelter himself described the syndrome named after him as a discovery by Fuller Albright, who "only quite selflessly allowed my name to be the first on the list of authors".
literature
- Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach : Klinefelter, Harry Fitch. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 757.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harry F. Klinefelter, EC Reifenstein, F. Albright: Syndrome characterized by gynecomastia, aspermatogenesis without Aleydigism, and increased excretion of follicle-stimulating hormone. In: Journal of clinical Endocrinology. Volume 2, 1942, pp. 615-627, doi : 10.1210 / jcem-2-11-615 .
- ↑ John K. Amory, Bradley D. Anawalt, Alvin Paulsen, William J. Bremner: Klinefelter's syndrome . In: The Lancet , Vol. 356, Issue 9226, pp. 333 (334)
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SURNAME | Klinefelter, Harry F. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klinefelter, Harry Fitch |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American endocrinologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1912 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Baltimore |
DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 1990 |