Carl-Henry Alström

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Carl-Henry Alström (1907-1993) was a Swedish psychiatrist who described a syndrome now named for him, Alström syndrome, an hereditary disorder that characteristically includes obesity in childhood, nerve deafness and retinal degeneration (due to atypical retinitis pigmentosa).

[edit] External links

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