Biography
Luis Morquio Belinzon, Uruguayan pediatrician (Montevideo 24 September 1867 – Montevideo 19 June 1935)
From Italian descent
Authored 335 papers and 2 books
Established the curative importance of vomica in hydatids
Established the relationship between Sydenham chorea and encephalitis
DESCRIBED
DISEASES
Described congenital cardiac block
Sur une maladie infantile et familiale caractérisée par des modifications permanentes du pouls, des ataques syncopales et epileptiformes et la mort subite. Arch. Med. Enfants 4:467-75, 1901
Morquio disease or Morquio-Ullrich-Brailsford syndrome
Sur une forme de dystrophie osseuse familiale. Bull. Soc. Pediat. Paris 27:145-52, 1929
Auriculoventricular block with septal malformation
Sobre un caso de malformación cardiaca con sindrome de Stokes-Adams y muerte súbita. Arch. Lat. Am. Ped. 20:381-7, 1926
Total atresia of intrahepatic bile ducts (1911)
An infantile and familial disease characterized by a cardiohepatic syndrome, and death in asystoly. Arch. Med. Enf. 19(9), 1916
Pseudo tubercular meningitis
Meningitis pseudotuberculosis. Arch. Lat. Am. Ped. (1916)
Primary urlian meningitis
SIGNS
Pseudo Kernig sign in Heine-Medin disease (Morquio sign)
Pseudo signe de Kernig dans le paralysie infantile. Bull. Soc. Ped. Paris 23:580-5, 1925
Echo patellar reflex
El reflejo en eco de la corea de Sydenham. Arch. Lat. Am. Ped. 18:19, 1922
Triad sign of hydatid in child brain (cardiac hypertension+hemiplegia+convulsions) 1932
A radiological sign of hydatid or Morquio-Bonaba-Soto sign
With J. Bonaba & J.A. Soto. El neumoquiste perivesicular a minima reparable. Nuevo signo radiológico del quiste hidatico del pulmón. Arch. Pediat. Uruguay 5:353, 1934
EPONYMY
Morquio-Suarez syndrome
Morquio maneuver
HONOURS
Associate Member, Academie de Medecine de Paris (1933)
President, Union Internationale de Socours aux Enfants (1930-2)