List of Eponymously Named Diseases (K-P)

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Some diseases have been named after the person who first described the condition. This usually involves publishing an article in a respected medical journal. Rarely an eponymous disease may be named after a patient (examples include Christmas disease, Lou Gehrig's disease, Hartnup disease and Mortimer's disease).

Related disease namings include place names (Bornholm disease, Lyme disease, Ebola hemorrhagic fever) and even societies (Legionnaires' disease). These, however, are not eponyms.

Eponyms are a longstanding tradition in Western science and medicine. Being awarded an eponym is regarded as an honour: "eponymity, not anonymity, is the standard" (Merton R K, 1973). It is regarded as bad form to attempt to eponymise oneself. At a time when medicine lacked the tools to investigate the underlying causes of many syndromes, the eponym was a convenient mechanism for attaching a label to a disease. In order to freely discuss something, it must have a name.

K

• Kahler's disease – Otto Kahler
• Kanner syndrome – Leo Kanner (this name is rarely used now)
• Kaposi sarcoma – Moritz Kaposi, Hungarian dermatologist
• Kashin–Beck disease – Nicolai Ivanowich Kashin, Evgeny Vladimirovich Bek, Russian military physicians
• Kawasaki disease – Tomisaku Kawasaki
• Kearns–Sayre syndrome – Thomas P. Kearns, George Pomeroy Sayre
• Kenny syndrome – Frederic Marshal Kenny
• Kienbock's disease – Robert Kienböck, Austrian radiologist
• Kikuchi's disease – Masahiro Kikuchi, Y.Fujimoto
• Kimmelstiel–Wilson disease – Paul Kimmelstiel, Clifford Wilson
• Kimura's disease – T. Kimura
• King–Kopetzky syndrome – P. F. King, Samuel J. Kopetzky
• Kinsbourne syndrome – Marcel Kinsbourne, Austrian neurologist.
• Kjer's optic neuropathy – Poul Kjer, Danish ophthalmologist
• Klatskin's tumor – Gerald Klatskin
• Klinefelter syndrome – Harry Klinefelter
• Klüver–Bucy syndrome – Heinrich Klüver, Paul Bucy
• Köhler disease – Alban Köhler, German radiologist.
• Korsakoff syndrome – Sergei Korsakof, neuropsychiatrist
• Kounis syndrome – Nicholas Kounis, Greek cardiologist
• Krabbe's disease – Knud Haraldsen Krabbe, Danish neurologist
• Krukenberg tumor – Friedrich Ernst Krukenberg, German physician
• Kugelberg–Welander disease – Erik Klas Henrik Kugelberg, Lisa Welander

L

• Lafora's disease – Gonzalo Rodriguez Lafora, a Spanish neuropathologist
• Legg–Calvé–Perthes syndrome – Arthur Legg, Jacques Calvé and Georg Perthes
• Leigh's disease – Denis Archibald Leigh, British psychiatrist
• Leiner syndrome – Karl Leiner, André Moussous
• Leishmaniasis – Sir William Boog Leishman
• Lemierre's syndrome – André Lemierre
• Lenègre's disease – Jean Lenègre
• Lesch–Nyhan syndrome – Michael Lesch, William Leo Nyhan, a pediatrician
• Letterer–Siwe disease – Erich Letterer, Sture Siwe
• Lev's disease – Maurice Lev, Jean Lenègre
• Libman–Sacks disease – Emanuel Libman, Benjamin Sacks
• Lobomycosis – Jorge Lobo, Brazilian dermatologist
• Löffler's eosinophilic endocarditis – Wilhelm Löffler
• Ludwig's angina – Wilhelm Friedrich von Ludwig, German physician
• Lynch syndrome – Henry T. Lynch

M

• Machado–Joseph disease (Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3) –
• Marie–Foix–Alajouanine syndrome – Pierre Marie, Charles Foix, Théophile Alajouanine
• Maladie de Charcot, French name for Motor Neurone Disease – Jean-Martin Charcot, a French neurologist
• Mallory–Weiss syndrome – G. Kenneth Mallory and Soma Weiss
• Mansonellosis – Sir Patrick Manson
• Marburg multiple sclerosis – Otto Marburg
• Marfan syndrome – Antoine Marfan, French pediatrician.
• Marshall–Smith syndrome – Richard E. Marshall and David Weyhe Smith
• McArdle's Disease – Brian McArdle
• McCune–Albright syndrome – Donovan James McCune and Fuller Albright
• Meigs' syndrome – Joe Vincent Meigs
• Ménétrier's disease – Pierre Eugène Ménétrier, French physician
• Ménière’s disease – Prosper Ménière
• Menkes disease – John Hans Menkes
• Mikulicz's disease – Jan Mikulicz-Radecki (see also: associated eponyms)
• Mondor's disease – Henri Mondor, French surgeon.
• Monge's disease – Carlos Monge
• Mucha–Habermann disease –

N

• Noonan syndrome – Jacqueline Noonan

O

• Ormond disease – John Kelso Ormond
• Osgood–Schlatter disease – Robert Bayley Osgood, Carl B. Schlatter
• Osler–Weber–Rendu syndrome – Sir William Osler, Henri Jules Louis Marie Rendu and Frederick Parkes Weber

P

• Paget's disease of bone (* Paget's disease) – Sir James Paget, British surgeon
• Paget's disease of the breast (* Paget's disease of the nipple) – Sir James Paget, British surgeon
• Paget's disease of the penis – Sir James Paget, British surgeon
• Parkinson's disease – James Parkinson –
• Patau syndrome – Klaus Patau
• Pelizaeus–Merzbacher disease – Friedrich Christoph Pelizaeus and Ludwig Merzbacher
• Perthes syndrome – Arthur Legg, Jacques Calvé and Georg Perthes
• Peyronie's disease – François Gigot de la Peyronie
• Pick's disease – Arnold Pick
• Pickardt syndrome – C. R. Pickardt
• Plummer's disease – Henry Stanley Plummer
• Poland's syndrome – Sir Alfred Poland
• Pompe's disease – Johann Cassianius Pompe
• Pott's disease – Percivall Pott
• Pott's puffy tumor – Percivall Pott
• Potter sequence – Edith Potter
• Prader–Willi syndrome – Andrea Prader, (Alexis Labhart) and Heinrich Willi
• Primrose syndrome – D. A. Primrose
• Prinzmetal angina – Myron Prinzmetal