Leo Buerger

Biography

• Born 1879
• Died 1943

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Medical Eponyms

Buerger disease (1908)

Carl Friedländer (1847-1887)

1879 – Felix von Winiwarter (1852-1931)

1908 – Leo Buerger (1879-1943)

Buerger test

Buerger dystoscope

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Major Publications

• Buerger L. Observations on the Staining of Encapsulated Bacteria with Particular Reference to Pneumococci and Streptococci. The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1907; 4: 426
• Buerger L. Thrombo-angiitis obliterans: a study of the vascular lesions leading to presenile spontaneous gangrene. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1908; 136(4): 567-580.
• Buerger L. The veins in thrombo-angiitis obliterans. JAMA 1909;LII;(17):1319-1325.
• Buerger L. Concerning Vasomotor and Trophic Disturbances of the Upper Extremities; with Particular Reference to Thromboangiitis Obliterans, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences 1915; 149: 210-229
• Buerger L. The pathology of thrombo-angiitis obliterans. Medical Record (New York) 1920; 97: 431-437.
• Buerger L. The circulatory disturbances of the extremities including gangrene, vasomotor, and trophic disorders 1924
• Buerger L. Thrombo-angitis obliterans; a study of the vascular lesions leading to presenile spontaneous gangrene. Am J Med. 1952 Nov;13(5):526-32.

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References

Biography

• Birch CA. Buerger’s disease. Leo Buerger (1879-1943). Practitioner. 1973;211(266):823-824.
• Kaplan GW. Leo Buerger (1897–1943). Invest Urol. 1974;11:342–343
• Schoenberg DG, Schoenberg BS. Eponym: Leo Buerger: instrument, disease, and ego. South Med J. 1979;72(6):737-738.
• Luft FC. Leo Buerger (1879-1943) revisited. Am J Med Sci. 2009;337(4):287.
• van den Tweel J.G. Buerger, Leo (1879–1943). In: van Krieken J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pathology. 2016

Eponymous terms

• Friedländer C. Arteriitis obliterans. Centralblatt für die medizinischen Wissenschaften, 1876; 14(4): 65-69
• von Winiwarter F. Über eine eigenthümliche Form von Endarteriitis und Endophlebitis mit Gangrän des Fusses. Archiv für klinische Chirurgie, 1879; 23: 202-226.
• Buerger L. Landmark publication from the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, ‘Thrombo-angiitis obliterans: a study of the vascular lesions leading to presenile spontaneous gangrene’ 1908. Am J Med Sci. 2009;337(4):274-284.