Bernard-Jean Antoine Marfan (June 20th 1858 - 1942) was a Pédiatre French.

Biography

He was born with Castelnaudary (Département of the Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon), of Antoine Prosper and Adélaïde Thuries.

He studies medicine with Toulouse and supports his diploma in 1886 with a thesis on the Tuberculose in the child. He exerts like pediatrist at the hospital of the ill children in Paris. He becomes professor of Thérapeutique, then of infantile hygiene. It is interested on many subjects of which the Nutrition of the child.

In 1896, Marfan describes anomalies of development in a 5 year old young girl to the members and fingers particularly lengthened. It names this disease the dolichosténomélie which will be called thereafter the Syndrome of Marfan, hereditary Maladie of the conjunctive Tissu. It is noted that the case described in 1896 actually corresponds to a close syndrome but, however, different.

Marfan is the joint editor of the Traité medicine with Jean-Martin Charcot. He is regarded as one of the founders of the Pédiatrie in France.

Various other medical states éponyme S owe him their name among which:

• the Syndrome of Denies-Marfan

• the Syndrome hypermobility of Marfan
• the Loi of Marfan
• the Signe of Marfan
• the Symptôme of Marfan
• the Syndrome of Marfan-Madelung

External bonds

• Who named it? - Antoine Marfan

• Historia of the medicina - Antoine Marfan (in Spanish)

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