Mikito Takayasu

This is a Japanese name; the family name is Takayasu.

Mikito Takayasu (高安 右人, 1860 - 1938^?) was a Japanese ophthalmologist known for his discovery of Takayasu's arteritis.

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Graduating from Tokyo Imperial University in 1887 Takayasu worked at what was to become Kanazawa University School of Medicine in Kanazawa, Ishikawa. After moving to Beppu, Kyūshū he died in November 1938.

References

• http://www.jsvs.org/journal/abstract_en.php?bn=20031206&no=1 (corresponding Japanese page)
• http://rheumatology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/41/1/103 - where you can find his picture.