Ralph Douglas Kenneth Reye

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Ralph Douglas Kenneth Reye (born April 5, 1912 in Townsville , † July 16, 1977 ) was an Australian pathologist and the first person to describe Reye's syndrome, which was named after him .

Life

After graduating from Sydney University with a medical degree, Reye joined the Pathology Department at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in Sydney, which would be his professional home for the rest of his life. In 1941 he was initially appointed acting head before he became director of the department of pathology in 1946. Reye was best known for the description, published in 1963 with Graeme Morgan and Jim Baral, of an encephalopathy occurring in children with fatty degeneration of the liver, which would later bear his name. What is less well known is that he was also the first to describe a rare benign soft tissue tumor, childhood fibrous hamartoma .

Less than 24 hours after retiring, Reye died on July 16, 1977 of a ruptured aortic aneurysm . He left behind his wife Corrie and a daughter.

literature

  • Brenda Heagney, GNB Storey: Reye, Ralph Douglas Kenneth (1912-1977). In: Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Center of Biography, Australian National University, accessed September 15, 2013.
  • JM Alexander: Obituary. Ralph Douglas Kenneth Reye. In: Aust Paediatr J. 14 (1), Mar 1978, p. 48. PMID 356835

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RDK Reye, G. Morgan, J. Baral: Encephalopathy and fatty degeneration of the viscera: a disease entity in childhood. In: Lancet. 2, 1963, pp. 749-752. PMID 14055046
  2. ^ RD Reye: A consideration of certain subdermal fibromatous tumors of infancy. In: The Journal of pathology and bacteriology. Volume 72, Number 1, July 1956, pp. 149-154, ISSN  0368-3494 . PMID 13367990 .
personal data
SURNAME Reye, Ralph Douglas Kenneth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Townsville
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1977