History of internal medicine in Poland
Michał Lityński – a forgotten author of the first description on primary hyperaldosteronism
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Michał Lityński – a forgotten author of the first description on primary hyperaldosteronism
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Abstract
Primary hyperaldosteronism (Conn’s syndrome) was described for the first time by the Polish internist Michał Lityński (1906–1989) in 1953. Jerome W. Conn’s (1907–1994) report on the disease appeared in 1955.
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