Antoine Marfan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French pediatrician
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Place of Birth: Castelnaudary, Occitania, France
About Antoine Marfan
- Antoine Bernard-Jean Marfan (French pronunciation: ?[?~twan b??na? ??~ ma?f?~]; June 23, 1858 – February 11, 1942) was a French pediatrician.
- He was born in Castelnaudary (département Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon) to Antoine Prosper Marfan and Adélaïde Thuries.
- He began his medical studies in Toulouse, where he stayed for two years before moving to Paris.
- He graduated in 1886, his education having been interrupted by a period of military service.
- In 1903 he became a professor of infantile hygiene in the pediatric clinic of the University of Paris.
- During the same year, he became a member of the Académie de Médecine.
- In 1896, Marfan described a hereditary disorder of connective tissue that was to become known as Marfan syndrome, the term first being used by Henricus Jacobus Marie Weve (1888–1962) of Utrecht in 1931.
- Today, it is thought that Marfan's patient (a five-year-old girl named Gabrielle) was affected by a condition known as congenital contractural arachnodactyly, and not Marfan's syndrome.Further eponymous medical conditions named after Antoine Marfan include: Dennie–Marfan syndrome Marfan's hypermobility syndrome Marfan's law Marfan's sign Marfan's symptom Marfan–Madelung syndromeMarfan also had interests in the pediatric aspects of tuberculosis, nutrition and diphtheria.
- With Jacques-Joseph Grancher (1843–1907) and Jules Comby (1853–1947), he was co-author of Traité des maladies de l’enfance.
- From 1913 to 1922, he was publisher of the journal Le Nourrisson.
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