Helge Stormorken

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Helge Stormorken (8 October 1922 – 9 June 2019) was a Norwegian veterinarian and physician.[1]

He established the cause of a worldwide fatal bleeding disease in piglets leading to its eradication. He described the multifaceted Stormorken syndrome,[2] a mutations in f. VII, f. IX, Fibrinogen Oslo IV and V, all with clinical consequences. Nearly thirty theses on different aspects emanated from the institute together with a host of single papers from its own staff and the many US and European visitors. The most prominent of these was Holm Holmsen who made basic discoveries establishing platelets as secretory non-nucleated cells. Stormorken was active in international organisations within the field, as chairman of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis 1978–1982, as cofounder and member of the governing board in European Thrombosis Research Organisation (ETRO) 1972–1978, as an honorary member in 1997. In 1971 Oslo and his institute was chosen as the organizer and host of the first international congress in this field.

Stormorken was also the chairman of many committees, local as well as international, a teacher of medical students and other health personnel. He headed the Norwegian Red Cross team and was wounded in the French-Algerian War of 1962. His publications, mainly international, total 260.

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