Felix von Winiwarter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Austrian physician
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Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
About Felix von Winiwarter
- Felix von Winiwarter (February 28, 1852 – July 10, 1931) was an Austrian physician who was a native of Vienna. In 1876 he earned his doctorate at the University of Vienna, and remained in Vienna as an assistant in the clinic of Heinrich von Bamberger (1822–1888).
- Soon afterwards, he became a surgical apprentice to Theodor Billroth (1829–1894), and from 1878 to 1881 worked as a secondary physician under Leopold Ritter von Dittel (1815–1898).
- In 1881 he became hospital director at Landesklinikum Weinviertel in Hollabrunn.
- He was a younger brother to Alexander von Winiwarter (1848–1917), who also spent part of his career working with Theodor Billroth. Winiwarter is credited for providing an early description of thromboangiitis obliterans.
- In 1879 he described a situation involving a 57-year-old male patient who had an unusual obliteration of the arteries and veins of the leg.
- He attributed this disorder to new growth of tissue from the intima, and proposed the name "endarteritis obliterans" for the disease.
- Winiwarter's discovery wasn't the first modern description of the condition, as three years earlier, bacteriologist Carl Friedländer (1847–1887) referred to it as "arteritis obliterans".
- In 1908, American surgeon Leo Buerger (1879–1943) further described the disease, and in 1924 published a monograph based on analyses taken from 500 patients.
- The disease was later referred to as "Winiwarter–Buerger syndrome", "Buerger's disease" or as "thromboangiitis obliterans".
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