Miguel de Oliveira Couto, Brazilian clinician (Rio de Janeiro 01 May 1865 – Rio de Janeiro 06 June 1934)
ACHIEVEMENTS
Created the notion of hematogenous jaundice
Described fatty degeneration of visceral organs or Couto’s disease Da Polysteatose visceral curavel. Arch. Bras. Med. 4:475-83, 1914.
Described Miguel Couto circular murmur, a murmur with circular propagation in serious mitral insufficiency
Les bruits des souffle circulaires de l'insuffisance mitrale. arch. Malad. du Coeur, des Vaisseaux et du Sang, p.717, 1912.
Remembered in Miguel Couto's sign seen in ascites
With Azevedo Sodré published a classical monograph about yellow fever Das Gelb-Fieber. In Nothnagel, H. Spezielle Pathologie und
Therapie herausgegeben Von Hofrat. Vol 5, Part 2, p.181-6, 1901. With Rocha Lima wrote chapters about yellow fever in Carl Mense’s Handbuch der Tropenkrankheiten (1929) and Nicola Pende’s Endocrinologia, Patologia I Clinica degli organi a secrezione interna (1923-4) Performed important pharmacological researches about plants and fruits of Brazilian flora
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