Victor Charles Hanot

Victor Charles Hanot (1844 - 28 October 1896) was a French physician who specialized in the field of hepatology. He earned his doctorate in 1875, and was associated with the Hôpital Saint-Antoine in Paris. He was also a professor agrégé of general medicine in Paris. Hanot was considered a major influence in the career of Augustin Nicolas Gilbert (1858-1927).

Hanot specialized in the study of liver diseases, and made contributions concerning research of disorders such as cirrhosis and hemochromatosis. He was the first to give a comprehensive description of primary biliary cirrhosis, which is sometimes referred to as "Hanot's disease". His best known written work is a book on hypertrophic cirrhosis titled "Cirrhose Hypertrophique avec ictère chronique".

He is associated with the eponymous "Troisier-Hanot-Chauffard syndrome", which is hypertrophic cirrhosis with skin pigmentation and diabetes mellitus. This syndrome has numerous other names, such as primary hemochromatosis, bronze diabetes, pigmentary cirrhosis, iron overload disease, et al. It is named with two other French physicians, Charles Emile Troisier (1844-1919) and Anatole Chauffard (1855-1932).

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