Editorials

Dr. Friedrich Wegener and the ACCP, Revisited

A primeira International Chapel Hill Consensus Conference (CHHC) ocorreu em 1994. Fizeram‐se sugestões sobre a nomenclatura das vasculites sistêmicas. Na segunda CHHC, 2012, adicionaram‐se importantes categorias à classificação da vasculite e fizeram‐se várias mudanças em nomes de doenças que não estavam incluídas na CHCC 1994. Introduziu‐se uma nova nomenclatura em vez de se usarem nomes como Churg‐Strauss e Wegener. Também foram adicionadas novas categorias, como de Behçet e Cogan etc. Essas pessoas são homenageadas pela classificação. Elas contribuíram para a ciência com seus estudos de caso, artigos científicos e observações. Este artigo analisa apenas epônimos presentes na classificação atual das vasculites. O objetivo é prestar informações sobre os cientistas mencionados na classificação das vasculites.

The first International Chapel Hill Consensus Conference (CHHC) was held in 1994. There have been suggestions about the nomenclature of systemic vasculitis. Important categories were added to the classification of vasculitis, and many changes were made for disease names in the second CHHC 2012, which were not included in the CHCC 1994. The new nomenclature was introduced instead of being referred to by many names such as Churg‐Strauss and Wegener”s. New categories such as Behçet”s and Cogan etc. were also added. These people are honored by the classification. They contribute to science through their case studies, scientific articles, and observations. This article reviews only eponyms present in the current classification of vasculitis. The aim of this paper is to give information about scientists mentioned in the classification of vasculitis.

The use of eponyms is controversial. A distinction must be made between those doctors and scientists after whom disorders and syndromes are named in honour of their discoveries, and those whose discoveries were made as a result of maltreatment of defenceless prisoners, utilizing specimens from victims of Nazi extermination policies, and euthanasia victims of racial policies. The second group of scientists should have their names expunged from the historical record, and their deeds brought to the attention of their colleagues. We are not however advocating the abolition of eponyms in general, only tainted ones.