Category LITFL

Charles Stent

Biography Medical Eponyms A dental splint destined to control the Stent* is fitted to any existing teeth or to the alveolar ridge (see figs. 1 and 2), and the sulcus is deepened per oram to the satisfaction of the dental…

Pedro Brugada

Biography Born 11 August 1952 Professor of cardiology and physiology, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel–Vrije Universiteit Brussel 2012 – gold medal from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Medical Eponyms Brugada Syndrome Key Medical Attributions Controversies Major Publications Brugada P, Brugada J.…

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Raymond Vieussens

Raymond de Vieussens (*1641 - 1715) was a French anatomist. He is renowned for his pioneering work on cardiac and nervous system anatomy.

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Blumgart-Ernstene murmur

Duroziez-type murmur observed with the patients arm subjected to various temperatures of water and by applying a subdiastolic pressure below the auscultation site, to help differentiate between aortic insufficiency and peripheral vasodilatation.

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Herrman Blumgart

Herrman Ludwig Blumgart (1895-1977) was an American physician, cardiologist and pioneer of diagnostic nuclear medicine. Blumgart-Ernstene murmur (1933)

Nathan Charles

Patients are often a source of inspiration and hope. One such stand out individual is Nathan Charles.

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Rosenbach disease

Description What is the actual eponymous medical sign/syndrome/repair/classification… History 1873 – Tilbury Fox (1836-1879) first to describe what is now generally designated as erysipeloid. In 1873 Fox briefly described two instances of an eruption clinically conforming with that disease. 1873…