Pierre Maroteaux

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Pierre Maroteaux (* 1925 in Versailles ) is a French pediatrician and human geneticist .

Pierre Maroteaux studied human medicine at the University of Paris and graduated in 1952. He devoted himself to pediatrics and human genetics .

Under the direction of Emile Maurice Joseph Lamy (1895–1975) he dealt with hemolytic anemia , chromosomal aberrations and mucopolysaccharidosis .

From 1986 to 1989 he was research director at the Center national de la recherche scientifique , Hôpital Necker-Enfants malades in Paris. Numerous diseases and syndromes are named after him.

He coined the term " multiple synostoses " in 1972, and the disease name acromicric dysplasia in 1986.

Together with Jürgen Spranger and Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann he was involved in the delimitation of metatropic dwarfism , together with Kazimierz Koslowski and the Mainz pediatrician Jürgen Spranger in the delimitation of the Koslowski spondylometaphyseal dysplasia .

Honors

In 1993 he received the Mauro Baschirotto Award from the European Society of Human Genetics in recognition of his life's work.

In 1995/96 he received an honorary doctorate from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa , Lisbon .

The following syndromes are named after him:

The term “Maroteaux-Malamut syndrome” also exists as a synonym for acrodysostosis .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who named it
  2. ↑ Histoire Inserm
  3. ↑ P. Maroteaux, JP Bouvet, ML Briard: La maladie des synosthoses multiples. In: La Nouvelle presse medicale. Volume 1, Number 45, December 1972, pp. 3041-3047, PMID 4648959
  4. ↑ P. Maroteaux, R. Stanescu, V. Stanescu, R. Rappaport: Acromicric dysplasia. In: American journal of medical genetics. Vol. 24, No. 3, July 1986, pp. 447-459, doi: 10.1002 / ajmg.1320240307 , PMID 3728563 .
  5. ↑ P. Maroteaux, J. Spranger, HR Wiedemann: The metatropic dwarf growth. In: Archives for Pediatrics. Vol. 173, No. 3, February 1966, pp. 211-226, PMID 4963592 .
  6. ↑ K. Koslowski, P. Maroteaux, J. Spranger: La dysostose spondylométaphysaire. In: La presse médicale , Paris, 1967, vol. 75, pp. 2769-2774.
  7. ^ European Society of Human Genetics
  8. ↑ Doutoramentos honoris causa
personal data
SURNAME Maroteaux, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French pediatrician and human geneticist
DATE OF BIRTH 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Versailles