Edgar Van Nuys Allen

Edgar Van Nuys Allen ( born June 22, 1900 in Cozad, Dawson County, Nebraska, † June 14, 1961 in Rochester, Minnesota) was an American physician. According to him, the Allen test, the patency of hand arteries is checked, the Allen- Hines syndrome (with the U.S. physician Edgar Alphonso Hines Jr., 1905-1978 ), an accumulation of fat and fluid in legs and buttocks, as well as the Allen- Doisy test (along with Edward Adelbert Doisy ) named.

Allen was a specialist in the cardiovascular system professor at the Mayo Clinic. In 1960 he was co-recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research for Studies on Dicumarol. He remained editor of the first comprehensive textbooks on vascular diseases.