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Eli Moschcowitz
Born(1879-08-02)2 August 1879
Girált, Sáros County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary
(present-day Giraltovce, Prešov Region, Slovakia)
Died23 February 1964(1964-02-23) (aged 84)
New York City, United States of America
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materColumbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Known forDiscovery of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine, Pathology
InstitutionsColumbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Beth Israel Medical Center Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan)

Eli Moschcowitz (2 August 1879 – 23 February 1964)[1] was an American doctor best known for his role in discovering thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) which was originally called "Moshcowitz disease".[2] He is also known for having an early role in the development of psychosomatic medicine.[3][4][5]

Early life

Moschowitz was born in Gralt, Hungary.

Career

Moschcowitz received a medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He spent much of his career as a pathologist at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan, and was later was later medical director of Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan) and Professor of Clinical Medicne at Columbia.[6][7] He was also a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine.

In 1925 Moschcowitz described the autopsy pathology of a young female patient who died of a disease that first caused petechiae, pallor, paralysis, and coma.[8] Her blood vessels were largely filled with platelets.[9] Modern reports still occasionally refer to TTP as "Moschowitz disease" or "Moschowitz syndrome".[10]

Chess

Moschkowitz was a member of the Manhattan Chess Club. When the former world chess champion José Raúl Capablanca collapsed in what would prove to be his fatal stroke, Moschkowitz arranged the ambulance to take him to Mount Sinai Hospital. After Capablanca died the next morning, Moschkowitz was one of the three doctors who performed the full autopsy.[11]

See also

References

  1. ^ Marcus, Jacob Rader & Daniels, Judith M. (Ed.): The concise dictionary of American Jewish biography. Carlson Publications, Brooklyn (New York) 1994, ISBN 0926019740, p. 449.
  2. ^ Moake, J. L. (1998). "Moschcowitz, multimers, and metalloprotease". New England Journal of Medicine. 339 (22): 1629–31. doi:10.1056/NEJM199811263392210. PMID 9828253.
  3. ^ "Psychoanalysis Psychotherapy". Psychoanalysis-and-therapy.com. Retrieved 2015-04-26.
  4. ^ Alex Lorand and Eli Moschowitz,"A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of the Constitution in Graves' Syndrome," Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, 79(1934): 136-152;
  5. ^ Moschowitz, "Psychogenic Origin of Organic Diseases," New England Journal of Medicine, 212 (1935): 603-611.
  6. ^ "Eli Moschocwitz, internist, is dead"
  7. ^ http://gematologica.narod.ru/ELI_MOSCHCOWITZ.pdf
  8. ^ An acute febrile pleiochromic anemia with hyaline thrombosis of terminal arterioles and capillaries: An undescribed disease.Archives of Internal Medicine, Chicago, 1925, 36: 89)
  9. ^ Moake, J. L. (1998). "Moschcowitz, multimers, and metalloprotease". New England Journal of Medicine. 339 (22): 1629–31. doi:10.1056/NEJM199811263392210. PMID 9828253.
  10. ^ "Moschcowitz - PubMed - NCBI". Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. 2015-04-20. Retrieved 2015-04-26.
  11. ^ Edward Winter, Capablanca's Death, Chess History, last updated 31 August 2015.

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