Eli Moschcowitz

Eli Moschcowitz
Born (1879-08-02)2 August 1879
Girált, Sáros County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary
(present-day Giraltovce, Prešov Region, Slovakia)
Died 23 February 1964(1964-02-23) (aged 84)
New York City, United States of America
Citizenship American
Fields Medicine, Pathology
Institutions Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Beth Israel Medical Center Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan)
Alma mater Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Known for Discovery of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

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 "Moschcowitz syndrome".[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

Moschcowitz 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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