Mikito Takayasu

Mikito Takayasu (高安右人, Takayasu Mikito^?, September 4, 1860 - November 20, 1938) was a Japanese ophthalmologist known for his discovery of Takayasu's arteritis.

Graduating from Tokyo Imperial University in 1887, Takayasu worked at what was to become Kanazawa University School of Medicine in Kanazawa, Ishikawa. After moving to Beppu, Kyūshū, he died in November 1938.

References

http://www.jsvs.org/journal/abstract_en.php?bn=20031206&no=1 (corresponding Japanese page)
http://rheumatology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/41/1/103 - where you can find his picture.

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Name	Takayasu, Mikito
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Date of birth	1860
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Date of death	1938
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