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Guido Fanconi

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Swiss pediatrician (1892–1979)
Guido Fanconi,c. 1959.
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Guido Fanconi (English:/fɑːnˈkni/) (1 January 1892 – 10 October 1979) was aSwisspediatrician.

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Fanconi was born on 1 January 1892 inPoschiavo, a small village in the Canton ofGrisons. Fanconi is regarded as one of the founders of modern pediatrics.

He received his secondary school education inZürich. In 1911, he began his medical training inLausanne. In 1920, he entered the Kinderspital (Children's Hospital) of theUniversity of Zurich, where, with the exception of one year, he remained for 45 years.

Fanconi recognized the importance of biochemistry to clinical medicine. In 1929 he succeeded Emil Feer as professor of pediatrics and head of the Kinderspital. Under his direction, it became one of the most renowned children's hospitals in the world.

There are severalmedical conditions named after Dr. Fanconi. In 1927 he described hereditary panmyelopathy with short stature and hyperpigmentation, better known asFanconi anemia. In 1934 the first cases of cystic fibrosis of the pancreas were described in a thesis written under his direction. In 1941 a large epidemic of poliomyelitis occurred in Switzerland. Fanconi analyzed its epidemiology and found that the virus was not transmitted by droplet infection, as previously assumed, but rather follows a gastrointestinal pathway like typhoid fever. His understanding of pathophysiologic connections culminated in his prediction thatDown syndrome was due to a chromosomal abnormality, 20 years before trisomy 21 was discovered. His contributions torenal physiology led to renalFanconi syndrome being named for him.

In 1945 he founded a new pediatric journal,Helvetica Paediatrica Acta, which has become an internationally renowned periodical. Dr. Fanconi retired in 1965 from his chairmanship in pediatrics, but continued to practice and lecture until his death.

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  • Journal of Pediatrics. 96(4), p. 674

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