Hans Chiari
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Hans Chiari (1851 − 1916) was an Austrian pathologist who practiced medicine in Vienna, Prague and Strasbourg. His primary duties were concerned with postmortem examinations, and most of his 177 published writings are the result of these autopsies.
In 1891, he described a brain malformation that is characterized by abnormalities in the region where the brain and spinal cord meet, and it causes part of the cerebellum to protrude through the foramen magnum (bottom of the skull) into the spinal canal. This was to be called the Arnold-Chiari malformation, named after Chiari and another pathologist, Julius Arnold (1835 − 1915). The malformation was given its name in 1907 by two of Dr. Arnold's students. However, Arnold and Chiari were not the first to describe this condition; a Scottish physician named John Cleland (1835 − 1925) first described the malformation in 1883, and called it "basilar impression syndrome".
Chiari has another eponymous medical term named after him; the Budd-Chiari syndrome, which is ascites and cirrhosis of the liver caused by an obstruction of the hepatic vein due to a blood clot. It was named in conjunction with British internist George Budd (1808 − 1882).
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Some of the initial content on this page may be incorporated in part from copyleft sources in the public domain including wikis such as Wikipedia and AskDrWiki. Drug information for patients came from the The National Library of Medicine. Infectious disease information may have come from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Differential Diagnoses are drawn from clinicians as well as an amalgamation of 3 sources: 1.The Disease Database; 2. Kahan, Scott, Smith, Ellen G. In A Page: Signs and Symptoms. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2004:3; 3. Sailer, Christian, Wasner, Susanne. Differential Diagnosis Pocket. Hermosa Beach, CA: Borm Bruckmeir Publishing LLC, 2002:7 .
