English Name
Robert H. Heptinstall
Original Name
Robert Hodgson Heptinstall
Other Name
Heppy
Date and City of Birth
July 22, 1920, in Keswick, England
Date and City of Death
Living as of 2016
History of Life
Robert Heptinstall was born in Keswick, England, in 1920 to James A. and Mabel (Sanders) Heptinstall. He received his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Science degrees from London University in 1943 and pursued his initial postgraduate medical training at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School of London University. He began as an intern in surgery (house surgeon) at Charing Cross Hospital but this training was interrupted by military service in World War II. He was stationed as a Regimental Medical Officer in Asia for 3 years, and, upon his return to London, he changed his career path by training in pathology at St. Mary’s Hospital. He joined the St. Mary’s Hospital faculty in 1947 and remained there until 1960. He met Ann Enraght Porter while he was completing a postgraduate...
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Brumfitt, W., & Heptinstall, R. H. (1958). Experimental pyelonephritis: The influence of temporary and permanent ureteric obstruction on the localization of bacteria. British Journal of Experimental Pathology, 39, 610–617.
Heptinstall, R. H. (1953). Malignant hypertension; a study of fifty-one cases. The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology, 65, 423–439.
Heptinstall, R. H. (1966). Pathology of the kidney. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.
Heptinstall, R. H., & Gorrill, R. H. (1955). Experimental pyelonephritis and its effect on the blood pressure. The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology, 69, 191–198.
Hill, G. S., & Heptinstall, R. H. (1968). Steroid-induced hypertension in the rat. A microangiographic and histologic study on the pathogenesis of hypertensive vascular and glomerular lesions. The American Journal of Pathology, 52, 1–40.
ISN Video Legacy Project: Dr. Robert H. Heptinstall Interviewed by Gary S.Hill (1995) http://cybernephrology.ualberta.ca/ISN/VLP/Trans/Heptinstall.htm
Jennette, J. C., Olson, J. L., Schwartz, M. M., & Silva, F. G. (1998). Heptinstall’s pathology of the kidney. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven.
Jennette, J. C., Olson, J. L., Silva, F. G., & D’Agati, V. (2015). Heptinstall’s pathology of the kidney (7th ed.). Philadelphia: Wolters Klewer.
Joekes, A. M., Heptinstall, R. H., & Porter, K. A. (1958). The nephrotic syndrome; a study of renal biopsies in 20 adult patients. The Quarterly Journal of Medicine, 27, 495–516.
Pickering, G. W., Wright, A. D., & Heptinstall, R. H. (1952). The reversibility of malignant hypertension. Lancet, 2, 952–956.
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Charles Jennette, J., Weening, J.J. (2016). Heptinstall, Robert H. (1920–). In: van Krieken, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28845-1_3975-1
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