CXR Case 157
A 79 year old female with a history of atrial fibrillation and hypertension presents with increasing dyspnea. Interpret the evolving CXR's
Year 2020
Whipple disease
Rare multi-system disorder secondary to chronic bacterial infection. Affecting the gastrointestinal tract most frequently. Chronic infection of the intestinal mucosa with the bacterium Tropheryma whipplei, leads to a lymphostasis; abdominal pain; malabsorption syndrome with diarrhea; and weight loss.
Arthur Bond Cecil
Arthur Bond Cecil (1885 - 1967) was an American surgeon and urologist. Cole-Cecil murmur (1908) of aortic regurgitation; Cecil operation (1946) for hypospadias repair.
Gibson murmur
Gibson murmur (machinery murmur) associated with patent ductus arteriosus. Eponymously affiliated with George Alexander Gibson (1906)
Cole-Cecil murmur
Early diastolic murmur of aortic insufficiency radiating with axillary radiation. (1908) Cole and Cecil examined 17 patients with provisonal diagnosis of aortic insufficiency and mapped the site of maximal intensity and axillary radiation of the early diastolic murmur.Early diastolic murmur of aortic insufficiency radiating with axillary radiation.
Rufus Cole
Rufus Ivory Cole (1872 - 1966) was an American physician, and the first director of the Rockefellar Institute for Medical Research. Cole-Cecil Murmur
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CXR Case 156
An 18 year old female presents with right sided pleuritic chest pain. describe and interpret her CXR
Paul Hoffmann
Paul Hoffmann (1884-1962) was a German physiologist and physician. Known for describing Hoffmann-Tinel sign for assessment of nerve regeneration and success of nerve sutures.
Hoffmann-Tinel sign
Hoffmann-Tinel sign is paresthesia in the distal cutaneous distribution of an injured peripheral nerve evoked by tapping on the nerve more proximally.