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Hakaru Hashimoto (橋本 策, Hashimoto Hakaru, May 5, 1881 – January 9, 1934) [1] [2] was a Japanese doctor and medical scientist of the Meiji and Taishō periods. He is best known for publishing the first description of the disease that was later named Hashimoto's thyroiditis .
Also known as Hashimoto's disease, Hashimoto's thyroiditis is named after Japanese physician Hakaru Hashimoto (1881−1934) of the medical school at Kyushu University, [126] who first described the symptoms of persons with struma lymphomatosa, an intense infiltration of lymphocytes within the thyroid, in 1912 in the German journal called Archiv ...
Hashimoto's thyroiditis was first described by Japanese physician Hashimoto Hakaru working in Germany in 1912. Hashimoto's thyroiditis is also known as chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis, and patients with this disease often complain about difficulty swallowing. This condition may be so mild at first that the disease goes unnoticed for years.
Miyake headed the Department of Surgery at Kyushu Medical School, where he taught Hakaru Hashimoto, the discoverer of Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Miyake served as the president of the Japan Surgical Society and was a long-time friend of theoretical physicist Albert Einstein.
Hashimoto Gahō (橋本 雅邦, 1835–1908), Japanese painter; Hakaru Hashimoto (橋本 策, 1881–1934), Japanese physician who first described Hashimoto's thyroiditis; Hajime Hashimoto (橋本 一, born 1968), Japanese filmmaker of Category:Films directed by Hajime Hashimoto; Hiroshi Hashimoto (fencer) (橋本 寛, born 1964), Japanese fencer
In 1912 Hakaru Hashimoto described hypothyroidism and goiter associated with thyroid lymphoid infiltration. In 1956 the anti-Tg antibody was detected in similar cases, elucidating the autoimmune cause of these characteristics.
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Hakaru Hashimoto Ph.D. was a medical scientist, discoverer of Hashimoto's thyroiditis and the first alumnus of Kyushu Imperial University Medical School. [38] [39]