Elena Sgarbossa
Elena B. Sgarbossa is a cardiologist, medical writer and translator. Eponymously affiliated with Sgarbossa criteria with LBBB in AMI
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Alix Joffroy
Alix Joffroy (1844 - 1908) was a French neurologist and psychiatrist. Eponymously affiliated with Joffroy sign in Graves ophthalmopathy
David A. Rytand
David Abramson Rytland (1909 - 1991) was an American physician and cardiologist. Rytand murmur (1946), Rytand's law (1951)
Esther L. Bloomberg
Esther Lillian Bloomberg (1907 - 1997) was an American technical chemist. Albright-Butler-Bloomberg disease (1937)
Virginia Apgar
Virginia Apgar (1909 – 1974) was an American Obsgtetric anesthesiologist. Eponymously affiliated with the Apgar score - to assess newborn child health.
Tjitske Kleefstra
Tjitske Kleefstra is a Dutch Clinical Geneticist. Kleefstras syndrom (Kleefstra syndrome); previously known as the 9q subtelomere deletion syndrome (9qSTDS)
Felix Fleischner
Felix George Fleischner (1893 - 1969) was an Austrian radiologist. Eponymously affiliated with the Fleischner sign; one of several described CXR signs of pulmonary embolus
Nils Westermark
Nils Johan Hugo Westermark (1892 - 1980) was a Swedish radiologist. Westermark sign (1938) of relative oligemia on CXR in pulmonary embolism
Walter Holbrook Gaskell
Walter Holbrook Gaskell (1847-1914) was a British physiologist central to our current understanding of cardiac physiology
Pierre Barrère
Pierre Barrère (1690 - 1755) was a French physician and naturalist. He published works in medicine, presenting cadaveric dissections and detailed descriptions of pathologies such as pericardial effusion
William Morrant Baker
William Morrant Baker (1839 – 1896) was a British General Surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with the Baker's cyst and Baker's cannula, a flexible tracheal cannula
John Osborn
John J Osborn (1917 – 2014) was an American intensivist, pediatrician and inventor. Eponym: 'current of injury' Osborn wave - 1953