Carl-Henry Alström
Swedish psychiatrist
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| Intro | Swedish psychiatrist | ||||||
| Places | Sweden | ||||||
| was | Psychiatrist | ||||||
| Work field | Healthcare | ||||||
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| Birth | 3 May 1907 | ||||||
| Death | 1993 (aged 85 years) | ||||||
| Star sign | Taurus | ||||||
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Carl-Henry Alström (3 May 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).