József Baló

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József Mátyás Baló (10 November 1895 – 9 October 1979) was a Hungarian physician and academic. He researched extensively into neurological conditions, cardiovascular conditions and with his wife isolated the enzyme elastase. He published numerous related papers and authored a medical book. He gave his name to Baló's disease.

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Early life Born in Transylvania, the son of a minor noble, he graduated from Pázmány Péter Catholic University Medical School in 1919. He committed himself to pathology because at that time he wanted to work across the whole medical spectrum and this offered the best possibility.

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Career Following graduation he took a lifelong affiliation with the Pázmány Péter Catholic University Medical School in Budapest. He worked under Karoly Schaffer and Kalman Buday and at that juncture he concentrated on the pathology of the nervous system publishing some papers about changes in the nervous system in pernicious anaemia and periarteritis nodosa. In 1922 after receiving a Rockefeller Fellowship he spent two years at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Boston where he began work on virology. In 1926 he was appointed chairman of the Department of Pathology at St Stephen's Hospital (Szent István Khorház) At about this time Baló met a young lawyer who had developed an unusual fatal illness with aphasia, right hemiplegia and optic neuritis for which he underwent explorative surgery. The following day the patient died and Baló did a detailed post mortem examination of the man's brain where he found some changes which he recorded. This report was published in English the following year (1927) in the Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry where it generated wide interest. Baló named the condition "encephalitis periaxialis concentrica", which was later to be known as Baló's Disease. The disease had been noted before but Baló recorded…Citește mai mult

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Bibliography (with Béla Korpássy) Warzen, Papillome und Krebs. (Warts, Papillomas and Cancer.) pub:K Rényi, Budapest, 1936. Die Erkrankungen der weißen Substanz des Gehirns und des Rückenmarks (Diseases of the White Matter of the Brain and Spinal Cord) pub:Barth Publishing, Leipzig-Budapest, 1940. (with Ádám Faragó) Lungenkarzinom und Lungenadenom (Cancer and Adenoma of the Lung), pub:Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1959. Logika (Logic) Pub:Tankonyvkiado, Budapest 1974. Hungarian. ISBN 978-963-17-0011-4.

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Family Baló met Ilona Banga during his research work and married her at the age of 50. They continued to work together for the rest of his life. They produced one son, Mátyás Jr. who became a dermatologist in Budapest. During his life Jószef Baló published more than 350 papers and was elected to several foreign scientific organizations, among them Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pathologie (1940), the Royal Society (1965), the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher-Leopoldina (1962) and the Pathology Society of Russia (1962)