Refsum's Disease—A Recently Characterized Lipidosis Involving the Nervous System
Authors: DANIEL STEINBERG
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1967)

Clinical Staff Conference1 February 1967Refsum's Disease—A Recently Characterized Lipidosis Involving the Nervous SystemCombined Clinical Staff Conference at the National Institutes of HealthDANIEL STEINBERG, M.D., PH.D., FREDERIC Q. VROOM, M.D., W. KING ENGEL, M.D., JAN CAMMERMEYER, M.D., CHARLES E. MIZE, M.D., PH.D., JOEL AVIGAN, PH.D.DANIEL STEINBERG, M.D., PH.D., FREDERIC Q. VROOM, M.D., W. KING ENGEL, M.D., JAN CAMMERMEYER, M.D., CHARLES E. MIZE, M.D., PH.D., JOEL AVIGAN, PH.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-66-2-365 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptDr. Daniel Steinberg: About the time of World War II, a young Norwegian neurologist, Sigvald Refsum, became intrigued with four patients referred to the Neurology Department of the Rikshospitalet in Oslo. Two were a brother and a sister from one family, and the other two were cousins from a second family. The clinical features were unusual and shared a common pattern in all four subjects. Unable to fit the pattern into any previously described category, he reported his findings in 1945 (1), suggesting that these patients presented a new syndrome to which he eventually gave the name "heredopathia atactica polyneuritiformis"...References1. REFSUM S: Heredoataxia hemeralopica polyneuritiformis—et tidligere ikke beskrevet familiaert syndrom? En forelöbig meddelelse. Nord. Med. 28: 2682, 1945. Google Scholar2. REFSUM S: Heredopathia atactica polyneuritiformis. A familial syndrome not hitherto described. Acta Psychiat. Scand. (suppl. 38): 1, 1946. Google Scholar3. TOUSSAINTCOËRSTOPPET DCN: Heredopathia atactica polyneuritiformis (syndrome de Refsum). Constatations cliniques et biopsiques. Bull. Soc. Belg. Ophtal. 122: 383, 1959. Google Scholar4. 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