Eponyms

Click below to learn how this late 20th-century eponym came to define congenital TTP, based on a 1979 report describing a young girl with recurring microangiopathy long before ADAMTS13 was identified.

Click here to learn how this early 20th-century eponym became the original name for TTP, based on a 1925 report describing a young woman with rapidly progressive thrombotic microangiopathy that proved fatal.