Federico Chopin (1810-1849) y su enfermedad

• Pablo Young ^[1] ; Jorge M Bernaciak ^[1] ; Julio E Bruetman ^[1] ; Bárbara C Finn ^[1] ; Marcelo C Miranda ^[2]
  1. [1] Hospital Británico de Buenos Aires

     Hospital Británico de Buenos Aires

     Argentina

     
  2. [2] Clínica Las Condes

     Clínica Las Condes

     Santiago, Chile

     
• Localización: Revista Médica de Chile, ISSN-e 0034-9887, Vol. 142, Nº. 4, 2014, págs. 529-535
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), and his disease
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  • Frédéric Chopin - a great Polish composer and pianist-suffered from a chronic disease. Both during his life and after his death, physicians disagreed on Chopin's diagnosis. His contemporaries accepted the diagnosis of tuberculosis, a common disease in the 18th century. Description of new clinical entities provoked new dilemmas in the 21th century. Although other alternative diagnoses to tuberculosis have emerged, such as cystic fibrosis or alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, we still sustain that the first diagnosis is the most probable. In this paper we report F. Chopin's case history and discuss cons and pros for different diseases as the cause of F. Chopin's suffering and death.