- Louis Henri Vaquez
Louis Henri Vaquez (
August 27 ,1860 - 1936) was a French physician who practiced medicine inParis . He is known for his work regardinghematology andheart disease . Vaquez creditscardiologist Pierre Potain (1825-1901) as a major influence in his medical career.In 1892 Vaquez was the first to describe the blood disorder
polycythaemia vera , which is also known as "Osler-Vaquez disease" (named withWilliam Osler (1849-1919). Vaquez also made several contributions in the study ofleukemia .Vaquez was one of the first physicians to recognize the correlation of
Stokes-Adams disease to interference of thebundle of His . He also did research concerningcardiac arrhythmia andhigh blood pressure . He was founder and editor of the journal "Archives des maladies du coeur, vaissaux et du sang".Bibliography
* "Sur une forme spéciale de cyanose s’accompagnant d’hyperglobulie excessive et persistante". Comptes rendus de la Société de biologie, Paris, 1892, 44: 384-388.
* "Les arythmies". Paris, J. Baillière, 1911
* "Maladies du coeur". Paris, 1920; 2nd edition, 1928
* "Les troubles du rythme cardiaque", with Edouard Donzelot (1884-1960); Paris, 1926.References
* [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1689.html Who Named It; Louis Henri Vaquez]
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