Anatole Chauffard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French internist
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Place of Birth: Avignon, Provence-Alpes-CĂ´te d'Azur, France
About Anatole Chauffard
- Anatole Marie Émile Chauffard (22 August 1855 – 1 November 1932) was a French internist born in Avignon.
- He earned his doctorate in 1882, and became médecin des hôpitaux.
- In 1907 he was appointed professor of internal medicine at the Paris faculty.
- He was a member of the Académie de Médecine, and in 1911 attained the clinical chair at Hôpital Saint-Antoine.
- Chauffard is remembered for his work involving liver disease and his pathophysiological research of hereditary spherocytosis.
- His name is associated with the following disorders: "Minkowski-Chauffard disease": Congenital hemolytic anemia with spherocytosis, splenomegaly and jaundice.
- Named with Oskar Minkowski (1858–1931). "Troisier-Hanot-Chauffard syndrome": Hypertrophic cirrhosis with skin pigmentation and diabetes mellitus.
- Sometimes called primary hemochromatosis, bronze diabetes, pigmentary cirrhosis or iron overload disease.
- Named with Victor Charles Hanot (1844–1896) and Charles Emile Troisier (1844–1919).
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