Kawasaki disease
Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute self-limited febrile multisystem vasculitis of childhood of unknown aetiology in which coronary artery aneurysms (CAA) may develop in 15% - 25% of untreated cases.
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Ann C.M. Smith
Ann C. Morrison Smith American geneticist. Smith-Magenis syndrome (1986)
R. Ellen Magenis
Ruth Ellen Magenis (1925 - 2014) was an American pediatrician, medical geneticist and cytogeneticist. Smith-Magenis syndrome (1986)
Susan C. Dees
Susan C. Dees (1909 - 2001) was an American pediatrician. First female division chief and first full professor at Duke Medical Center
Carol Wolcott
Carol Nancy Dettman Wolcott (1941 - 1994) was an American pediatrician. Wolcott-Rallison syndrome (WRS) in 1972
Robert C. Muehrcke
Robert C. Muehrcke (1921 – 2003) was an American physician, and pioneer in the field of nephrology. Eponym: Muehrcke lines (1956)
Raissa Nitabuch
Raissa Semenovna Nitabuch [Раиса Семеновна Нитабух] (1859 - ) was a Russian physician and pathologist. Nitabuch layer [Слой Нитабух] (1887)
François Magendie
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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 313
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 313 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind The medical trivia FFFF
John Hilton Edwards
John Hilton Edwards (1928 - 2007) was an English physician and medical geneticist. Edwards syndrome, Trisomy 18 in 1960
Needing a Diagnostic Kick-start
A 4 year-old boy has been brought to the emergency department by his worried parents. He has had fevers for the past 6 days. Kawasaki disease?
Jules Sottas
Jules Sottas (1866–1945) was a French neurologist, historian and astronomer. Dejerine-Sottas Disease (1893)