Koplik Spots
Koplik spots are pathognomonic buccal lesions in early measles, first described by Henry Koplik in 1896, aiding pre-rash diagnosis and outbreak control.
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Crohn’s disease
Chronic inflammatory bowel disease affecting the GI tract, Crohn’s disease was first defined in 1932 but described decades earlier by Dalziel and others
Churg–Strauss syndrome
EGPA (Churg–Strauss syndrome): rare ANCA-associated vasculitis with asthma, eosinophilia, and systemic granulomatous inflammation of small vessels
Lenègre-Lev disease
Acquired fibrous degeneration of the left and right bundle branches, eventually manifesting as permanent complete atrioventricular (AV) dissociation with cardiac pauses and Adams-Stokes attacks
Stokes-Adams syndrome
Stokes-Adams syndrome is an abrupt, transient loss of consciousness due to a sudden but pronounced decrease in the cardiac output
Cheyne-Stokes respiration
Cheyne-Stokes respiration is a cyclical breathing pattern of apnoea and hyperpnoea, seen in heart failure, brain injury, and end-of-life settings.
May–Thurner syndrome
May–Thurner syndrome (MTS). Venous compression syndrome causing left-sided iliofemoral DVT, first anatomically defined by May and Thurner in 1957.
Janeway lesions
Janeway lesions; painless, haemorrhagic macules of the palms/soles linked to infective endocarditis. Edward Gamaliel Janeway (1899)
Guillain–Barré syndrome
Guillain-Barré syndrome is the most common and severe acute inflammatory paralytic neuropathy. The classical description of GBS involves rapidly progressive bilateral weakness, usually starting in the distal lower extremities and ascending proximally.
Bell’s palsy
Bell’s palsy: Acute idiopathic unilateral paralysis of the facial nerve. Named after Sir Charles Bell and his description in 1827
Pancoast Tumour
Pancoast Tumour is a primary bronchogenic carcinoma which arises in the apex of the lung at the superior pulmonary sulcus.
Pancoast Syndrome
Pancoast Syndrome occurs secondary to local compression of brachial plexus and sympathetic chain by superior (pulmonary) sulcus tumors.