Medical Dictionary
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Ayer·za's disease Pronunciation:
&-'y&r-z&z- Function:
noun : a complex of symptoms marked especially by cyanosis, dyspnea,polycythemia, and sclerosis of the pulmonary artery
Ayerza /ä-'yer-sä/,
Abel (1861–1918), Argentinean physician. Ayerza was a professor of clinicalmedicine at the National University of Buenos Aires. In 1901 he studied a case in which cyanosis and sclerosis of the pulmonary vessels appeared during autopsy. He reported his findings only in alecture. A student, Francisco C. Arrillaga, incorporated the observations into a 1912 thesis and published a full description of the disease in 1925.
