Carl-Henry Alström Explained

Birth Date:	3 May 1907
Birth Place:	Västerås, Sweden
Death Date:	1993 (aged about 86)
Citizenship:	Swedish
Fields:	Psychiatrist
Workplaces:	Institute for Human Genetics, Uppsala; Karolinska Institute
Known For:	Description of Alström syndrome

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]

External links

• Carl-Henry Alström biographical sketch on Who Named It? site
• Alström Syndrome International

Notes and References

1. 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