Guido Fanconi

Guido Fanconi is a Pédiatre Suisse born with Poschiavo (Canton of the Grisons in Switzerland, area of language Italian) on January 1st 1892, deceased in Poschiavo the October 10th 1979.

Graduate of the University of Zurich in 1918, it also exerted with Lausanne, Munich and Bern. In 1929, it is named director of the Hospital of the Children and holder of the pulpit of pediatry of the University of Zurich.

In 1930, recommending the fruits believed in the treatment of the infantile diarrheas, it becomes the precursor of the drugs containing Pectine. It is one of the founders of modern pediatry. It intervenes in fields very varied like hydro-electrolytic dehydrations and balances, the rickets and the metabolism of calcium, pneumonia, inter alia.

It left its name to several diseases in particular the anemia of Fanconi which is in fact a syndrome clinically associating a small size, malformations very varied, a cutaneous attack (achromic spots and spots coffee-with-milk) and, especially, the progressive development of medullary aplasia. It is about a recessive autosomic genetic disease that Guido Fanconi initially described in children originating in alpine valleys (situation supporting consanguinity) but which since was described in all the areas of the world.

In 1945 it founds a new newspaper of pediatry, Helvetica Paediatrica Acta , which became a publication of international reputation.

Until 1962, he is the general secretary of International Pediatric Association and he dealt with the underprivileged children of the underdeveloped countries.

In 1965, Dr. Fanconi withdraws himself from the pulpit of pediatry, but continuous to practice and give conferences until his death.

See too

Anemia of Fanconi
Syndrome of Debré-in Toni-Fanconi
Syndrome of Fanconi

Sources

Biotop * Biography of Guido Fanconi

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