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Carl-Henry Alström

Carl-Henry Alström

Swedish psychiatrist

Carl-Henry Alström (3 May 1907 – 1993) was a Swedish psychiatrist who described a syndrome now named for him, Alström syndrome, a hereditary disorder that characteristically includes obesity in childhood, nerve deafness, and retinal degeneration (due to atypical retinitis pigmentosa).[1]

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    Alstrom C. H., Hallgren B., Nilsson L. B., Asander H. (1959) "Retinal degeneration combined with obesity, diabetes mellitus and neurogenous deafness: a specific syndrome (not hitherto described) distinct from the Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome: a clinical, endocrinological and genetic examination based on a large pedigree." Acta Psychiatr Neurol Scand Suppl. 129:1-35
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