Renate Pickardt Explained

Caroline Renate Pickardt
Birth Date:1936 9, df=y
Birth Place:Plettenberg, Gau Westphalia-South, Germany
Death Place:Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Nationality:German
Fields:Endocrinology, medicine
Work Institutions:Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Thesis Title:Veränderungen des Sekretintestes bei subaciden, cholecystektomierten und pankreaskranken Patienten
Thesis Year:1965
Known For:Pickardt-Fahlbusch syndrome

Caroline Renate Pickardt (5 September 1936 – 21 April 2024) was a German endocrinologist. The main focus of her scientific work was in the area of thyroid diseases (thyroidology). She published fundamental articles on functional thyroid disorders and the pathophysiology of goitre.

Biography

Pickardt was born on 5 September 1936.[1] After receiving her doctorate in 1965 at the University of Munich with a dissertation titled "Veränderungen des Sekretintestes bei subaciden, cholecystektomierten und pankreaskranken Patienten" (Changes of the secretin test in subacid patients after cholecystectomy and with pancreatic diseases)[2] she habilitated in 1972 at the Ludwig-Maximilian University with a treatise titled "Stimulation der TSH-Sekretion durch TRH (Thyrotropin Releasing Hormone): diagnostische Bedeutung und pathophysiologische Folgerungen" (Stimulation of thyrotropin secretion by TRH (thyrotropin releasing hormone): diagnostic utility and pathophysiological consequences). On 18 January 1973, she was appointed Privatdozent,[3] in 1979 Professor.[4]

During her scientific life Pickard managed a number of scientific conferences[5] and published more than 80 papers and several books on thyroid disorders and endocrine ophthalmopathy.[6] [7] [8] Together with Rudolf Fahlbusch she described a form of tertiary hypothyroidism in pituitary stalk transection syndrome (Pickardt-Fahlbusch syndrome).[9]

From 2001 she was an emeritus professor. Pickardt died on 21 April 2024, at the age of 87.[10]

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/20828/1/WU4Z71_37_1996.pdf Informationsdienst 2/96 der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  2. Book: Resch . Lieselotte . Buzas . Ladislaus . Verzeichnis der Doktoren und Dissertationen der Universität Ingolstadt - Landshut - München 1472 - 1970, Band 5 . 1978 . Universitätsbibliothek München . München . 47 . 26 February 2019.
  3. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/12172620.pdf Personen- und Vorlesungsverzeichnis
  4. EB . Hochschulnachrichten . Deutsches Ärzteblatt . 1979 . 76 . 35 . A-2212 . 11 February 2019.
  5. Horst Schleusener, 1933-2015 . European Thyroid Journal . 2015 . 4 . 4 . 275–276 . 10.1159/000440615 . 164419754 . 11 January 2019. free .
  6. Witte . A . Landgraf . R . Markl . A . Boergen . KP . Hasenfratz . G . Pickardt . CR . Treatment of Graves' ophthalmopathy with cyclosporin A. . Klinische Wochenschrift . 1 October 1985 . 63 . 19 . 1000–4 . 10.1007/BF01737636 . 3840854. 33036244 .
  7. Hilbertz . T . Markl . A . Pickardt . CR . Boergen . KP . [Endocrine orbitopathy: a comparison of computerized tomographic results and orthoptic findings]. . RöFo: Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Röntgenstrahlen und der Nuklearmedizin . April 1988 . 148 . 4 . 426–30 . 10.1055/s-2008-1048224 . 2834791. 260290367 .
  8. Pickardt . CR . Why do we need the ophthalmologist? . Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology . May 1991 . 97 . 2–3 . 231–4 . 10.1055/s-0029-1211070 . 1915639.
  9. C. R. Pickardt, F. Erhardt, R. Fahlbusch, P. C. Scriba: Portal Vessels Occlusion. A Cause for Pituitary Insufficiency in Patients with Pituitary Tumors. In: European Journal of Clinical Investigation. (1973); 3, S. 262.
  10. https://trauer.sueddeutsche.de/traueranzeige/karoline-renate-pickardt Caroline Renate Pickardt