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Neurológia pre prax 2/2016
Cardiac function in hypertensive patients with metabolic syndrome and microalbuminuria
Richard Asher, a London physician working as a consultant in the Middlesex Hospital, became famous in the field of neurology and neuropsychiatry by the description of Münchhausen syndrome and Hashimoto´s encephalopathy (the later he named “myxedematous madness“). Beside that, he became fanous for his journal essays, in which he tried to define the doctor-patient relationship and the common sense in medicine.
Keywords: Richard Asher, Münchhausen syndrome, Hashimoto´s encephalopathy.
