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2016, Leukemia ResearchCitation Excerpt :More commonly, eponyms fall out of favor when it is learned that they are an incomplete or inaccurate descriptor, or that the person honored in the eponym was not actually the first to clearly describe the disease [27].) For instance, beginning in the late 1970s a group of rheumatologists advocated that the syndrome known as Reiter’s syndrome (post-infectious arthropathy) should instead be termed reactive arthritis, in large part because of the conviction of German physician Hans Conrad Julius Reiter (1881–1969) for war crimes for his medical experimentation on inmates at the Buchenwald concentration camp during the Second World War [28]. Similarly, in 2011 an international group of rheumatologists proposed renaming the vasculitis known as Wegener’s granulomatosis, because Friedrich Wegener (1907–1990), a German pathologist and Nazi party member, is also suspected of having participated in experiments on concentration camp inmates [29].
Names of infamy: Tainted eponyms
2015, Journal of Clinical NeuroscienceCitation Excerpt :The two ranking doctors at Buchenwald committed suicide before they could be captured and interrogated. Reiter was released, possibly because he provided the Allies with intelligence regarding Nazi germ warfare research [14,15]. The “club cell” was originally eponymously named after Max Clara, who owed his career advancement in no small way to his membership in Hitler’s party and active support of its programme.
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2007, Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North AmericaCitation Excerpt :The term Reiter's syndrome refers to the clinical syndrome of ReA that presents with the extra-articular manifestations of conjunctivitis and urethritis completing the classic triad. ( It has been proposed that Reiter's name be removed from the medical lexicon because he was declared a Nazi war criminal [88].) HLA-B27 is strongly associated with ReA and with this syndrome [42].
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Richard S. Panush, MD: Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ; Diana Paraschiv, MD: Resident, Department of Medicine, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ; Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, PhD: Rector, Sol and Anne Dorff Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, and Chair of Bioethics, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA.
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