Harry F. Klinefelter

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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

Individual evidence

  1. 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 .
  2. John K. Amory, Bradley D. Anawalt, Alvin Paulsen, William J. Bremner: Klinefelter's syndrome . In: The Lancet , Vol. 356, Issue 9226, pp. 333 (334)