Josef Flammer
Josef Flammer is a Swiss ophthalmologist and long-time director of the Eye Clinic at Basel University Hospital. Flammer is a glaucoma specialist who developed a new pathogenetic concept of glaucomatous damage according to which unstable blood supply leads to oxidative stress, which in turn plays a major role in apoptosis of cells in the optic nerve and retina in glaucoma patients.
21 April 1948
Born on the same birth date (21 April 1948): Dieter Fromm • Gary Condit • Paul Davis (singer)
Born on the same birth day (21 April): Alson Sherman • Anthony Quinn • Charlotte Brontë • David Servan-Schreiber • Don Cornell • Edelmiro Amante • Elizabeth II • Geoffrey Palmer (politician) • Herbert Wetterauer • Ira Louvin • Jack Taylor (referee) • Jacques Caron • John McCabe (composer) • Joseph Vaz • Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait • Reginald Heber • Silvana Mangano • Steve Backshall • Tatu Kolehmainen • Tim Jacobus
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