Renate Pickardt
{{Short description|German endocrinologist (1936–2024)}}
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|birth_place = Plettenberg, Gau Westphalia-South, Germany
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|death_place = Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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|fields = Endocrinology, medicine
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|known_for = Pickardt-Fahlbusch syndrome
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Caroline Renate Pickardt (5 September 1936 – 21 April 2024) was a German endocrinologist. The main focus of her scientific work was in the area of thyroid diseases (thyroidology). She published fundamental articles on functional thyroid disorders and the pathophysiology of goitre.
Biography
Pickardt was born on 5 September 1936.[https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/20828/1/WU4Z71_37_1996.pdf Informationsdienst 2/96 der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München] After receiving her doctorate in 1965 at the University of Munich with a dissertation titled "Veränderungen des Sekretintestes bei subaciden, cholecystektomierten und pankreaskranken Patienten" (Changes of the secretin test in subacid patients after cholecystectomy and with pancreatic diseases){{cite book |last1=Resch |first1=Lieselotte |last2=Buzas |first2=Ladislaus |title=Verzeichnis der Doktoren und Dissertationen der Universität Ingolstadt - Landshut - München 1472 - 1970, Band 5 |date=1978 |publisher=Universitätsbibliothek München |location=München |page=47 |url=https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2040/6/Doktoren_und_Dissertationen_ubm_5.pdf |accessdate=26 February 2019}} she habilitated in 1972 at the Ludwig-Maximilian University with a treatise titled "Stimulation der TSH-Sekretion durch TRH (Thyrotropin Releasing Hormone): diagnostische Bedeutung und pathophysiologische Folgerungen" (Stimulation of thyrotropin secretion by TRH (thyrotropin releasing hormone): diagnostic utility and pathophysiological consequences). On 18 January 1973, she was appointed Privatdozent,[https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/12172620.pdf Personen- und Vorlesungsverzeichnis] der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München für das Sommersemester 1975, S. 141. in 1979 Professor.{{cite journal |last1=EB |title=Hochschulnachrichten |journal=Deutsches Ärzteblatt |date=1979 |volume=76 |issue=35 |page=A-2212 |url=https://www.aerzteblatt.de/archiv/146462/Hochschulnachrichten |accessdate=11 February 2019}}
During her scientific life Pickard managed a number of scientific conferences{{cite journal |title=Horst Schleusener, 1933-2015 |journal=European Thyroid Journal |date=2015 |volume=4 |issue=4 |pages=275–276 |doi=10.1159/000440615 |s2cid=164419754 |url=https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/440615 |accessdate=11 January 2019|doi-access=free }} and published more than 80 papers and several books on thyroid disorders and endocrine ophthalmopathy.{{cite journal |last1=Witte |first1=A |last2=Landgraf |first2=R |last3=Markl |first3=A |last4=Boergen |first4=KP |last5=Hasenfratz |first5=G |last6=Pickardt |first6=CR |title=Treatment of Graves' ophthalmopathy with cyclosporin A. |journal=Klinische Wochenschrift |date=1 October 1985 |volume=63 |issue=19 |pages=1000–4 |doi=10.1007/BF01737636 |pmid=3840854|s2cid=33036244 }}{{cite journal |last1=Hilbertz |first1=T |last2=Markl |first2=A |last3=Pickardt |first3=CR |last4=Boergen |first4=KP |title=[Endocrine orbitopathy: a comparison of computerized tomographic results and orthoptic findings]. |journal=RöFo: Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Röntgenstrahlen und der Nuklearmedizin |date=April 1988 |volume=148 |issue=4 |pages=426–30 |doi=10.1055/s-2008-1048224 |pmid=2834791|s2cid=260290367 }}{{cite journal |last1=Pickardt |first1=CR |title=Why do we need the ophthalmologist? |journal=Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology |date=May 1991 |volume=97 |issue=2–3 |pages=231–4 |doi=10.1055/s-0029-1211070 |pmid=1915639}} Together with Rudolf Fahlbusch she described a form of tertiary hypothyroidism in pituitary stalk transection syndrome (Pickardt-Fahlbusch syndrome).C. R. Pickardt, F. Erhardt, R. Fahlbusch, P. C. Scriba: [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120072487/abstract Portal Vessels Occlusion. A Cause for Pituitary Insufficiency in Patients with Pituitary Tumors.] In: European Journal of Clinical Investigation. (1973); 3, S. 262.
From 2001 she was an emeritus professor. Pickardt died on 21 April 2024, at the age of 87.[https://trauer.sueddeutsche.de/traueranzeige/karoline-renate-pickardt Caroline Renate Pickardt] {{in lang|de}}
Selected publications
- C. R. Pickardt, W. Geiger, R. Fahlbusch und P. C. Scriba. Stimulation der TSH-Sekretion durch TRF-Belastung bei hypothalamischen und hypophysären Krankheitsbildern. Klin. Wschr. (1972) 50, 42–59
- Johannes Köbberling, Caroline R. Pickardt (Hrsg.). Struma. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1990. {{ISBN|3540510672}}
- Reinhard Ziegler, Caroline R. Pickardt, Rolf-Peter Willig. Rationelle Diagnostik in der Endokrinologie. Georg-Thieme-Verlag Stuttgart 1993. {{ISBN|3131155019}}
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Category:People from Plettenberg
Category:German endocrinologists
Category:Women endocrinologists