Victor Henri Hutinel (; 15 April 1849 – 21 March 1933) was a French physician who was a native of

Châtillon-sur-Seine Châtillon-sur-Seine (, ) is a commune of the Côte-d'Or department, eastern France. The Musée du Pays Châtillonnais is housed in old abbey of Notre-Dame de Châtillon, within the town, known for its collection of pre-Roman and Roman relic ...

, Côte-d'Or. He specialized in

pediatric Pediatrics ( also spelled ''paediatrics'' or ''pædiatrics'') is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until the ...

medicine and childhood diseases. He studied medicine in Nancy, and later

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, where he became an externe in 1871. He earned his medical doctorate in 1877, and in 1879 became ''médecin des hôpitaux''. In 1897 he was professor of internal

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, and in 1907 became a professor of pediatrics, succeeding Jacques-Joseph Grancher (1843–1907) as director at the '' Hôpital des Enfants-Malades'' in Paris. Among his written publications was a five-volume work on childhood diseases called ''Les maladies des enfants''. Another name for

cirrhosis Cirrhosis, also known as liver cirrhosis or hepatic cirrhosis, and end-stage liver disease, is the impaired liver function caused by the formation of scar tissue known as fibrosis due to damage caused by liver disease. Damage causes tissue rep ...

of the

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associated with childhood tuberculous pericarditis is sometimes referred to as "Hutinel's cirrhosis".Hutinel's cirrhosis
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1849 births 1933 deaths People from Châtillon-sur-Seine French pediatricians {{France-med-bio-stub