Guido_Werdnig

Guido Werdnig

Guido Werdnig

Austrian neurologist

Guido Werdnig (Ratschach, 20 June 1844 – 26 April 1919) was an Austrian neurologist.[1]

Guido Werdnig (1844-1919)

Werdnig, together with Johann Hoffmann of the University of Heidelberg, were the first doctors to describe Werdnig–Hoffmann disease, now known as spinal muscular atrophy type 1.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    doctor/1713 at Who Named It?
  2. [2]
    Peter Beighton, Greta Beighton: The Man Behind the Syndrome. Springer, 1986, ISBN 978-1-4471-1417-8, p. 193.


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