Horst Huismans

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Horst Huismans (born June 17, 1938 in Hildesheim ) is a German ophthalmologist and specialist book author.

Life

Huismans was born in Hildesheim as the son of Alfred Huismans and his wife Margherita. Hansen born. After graduating from high school, which he passed in 1959 at the state secondary school in Wangerooge / North Sea, he studied human medicine at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster , where he passed his medical state examination in 1965 and obtained his doctorate in the same year. med. received his doctorate. From 1971 to 1999 he ran an ophthalmological practice as a resident doctor together with his wife, the ophthalmologist Gesine Huismans (1939–2011) in Nordenham (Wesermarsch district).

He is the father of three children.

Textbook author

In addition to his practice, he appeared as a specialist book author. One of his main works is his eye atlas: The photographed fundus - atlas with diagnostic and therapeutic information (1986). It shows retinal diseases photographed by Huismans. The atlas was translated into English in 1990 and into Chinese in 1996.

In his monograph Animal Parasites of the Human Eye - Tropical Diseases from 1979, he was able to prove with photo documentation that the dog roundworm larva "Toxocara canis" (Werner), which was previously completely underestimated in terms of its human pathogenicity, migrates into the human eye and also into the brain, which previously often led to a clinical misdiagnosis Epilepsy and ultimately exposed the patient to the emotional trauma of a hereditary disease .

His 1990 work, Doppler Sonography for Eye Diseases, Instructions for Ophthalmologists, Neurologists and Angiologists, examined a diagnostic method that was still largely unknown in the field of ophthalmology and has now become a standard work in ophthalmology. He succeeded in detecting with photo documentation of the central artery of the eye retina .

Awards

• 1994: Badge of honor from the Lower Saxony Medical Association
• 2015: Golden doctoral diploma from the Medical Faculty of the University of Münster

Publications

• Is there an etiological connection between trichomonas infection and carcinoma colli uteri? Münster 1965 (Univ. Münster med. Diss.).
• Animal parasites of the human eye (= library of the ophthalmologist. Volume 80). Enke, Stuttgart 1979.
• The photographed fundus. Atlas with diagnostic and therapeutic information. Karger, Basel 1986, ISBN 0-683-04255-6 (English-language edition: The Ocular Fundus, a photographic Documentation Atlas with Diagnostic an Therapeutic Guidelines ; Chinese edition obtained from Changxian Yi, Li Xiaoxing, Eye Department, Beijing Medical University, 1996) .
• Ultrasonic Doppler sonography for ophthalmologists, angiologists, neurologists. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1990.
• with the collaboration of M. Brüske: Magnifying visual aids for the visually impaired. Introduction to examination and fitting technology, rehabilitation. Kaden, Heidelberg 1993.
• The Holy Relic of Turin. Legacy of the historical Jesus of Nazareth. Bernardus, Grevenbroich 2004, ISBN 3-937634-09-6 .
• Lexicon of clinical diabetology. Practice-oriented interdisciplinary presentation. Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, Cologne 2005.
• Diabetes mellitus - from ancient times to the present . Uni-med, Bremen 2010, ISBN 3-8374-1197-4 .
• Acute chorioretinitis due to Listeria monocytogenes . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . Vol. 90 (1993) H. 13, pp. A-966.

literature

• Christian Schulze Pellengahr : Lower Saxony and a staunch Westphalian by choice: Horst Huismans, ophthalmologist and successful specialist book author has lived in Münster for years. In: Yearbook Westphalia. 70th volume (2016), pp. 238–242.