Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 157
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 157 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
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EMA April 2012
Short editorial comments on articles from Vol. 24 Issue 2 of Emergency Medicine Australasia (EMA Journal) published online in April 2012.
Jean-François Kérandel
Jean Francois Kerandel (1873-1934) was a French physician. Symptoms of African human trypanosomiasis Kerandel sign and symptom
Alvarado score
The Alvarado score is a 10 point score for predicting acute appendicitis (mnemonic MANTRELS). Alfredo Alvarado in 1986
Sidney Farber
Sidney Farber (1903-1973) was an American pediatric pathologist. Farber disease (1952) autosomal-recessive, lysosomal storage disorder caused by acid ceramidase deficiency and associated with distinct clinical phenotypes
Jacob Churg
Jacob Churg (1910–2005) was a Belarussian/Polish born American practicing pathologist. Eponymous affiliation with Churg-Strauss Syndrome (CSS) in 1951. Now known as Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (EGPA)
Edwin Sterling Munson
Edwin Sterling Munson (1870-1958) was an American ophthalmologist.Munson sign, a V-shaped indentation of the lower eyelid when the gaze is directed downwards, an indication that is characteristic of advanced keratoconus.
How to make a PK SMACCTalk
LITFL contributor Aaron Sparshott (@IVline) has made a nice little video presentation on the ins and outs of Pecha Kucha, and how to make an online PK SMACCtalk. It is perfect for all the SMACCheads out there needing that extra…
Kartagener syndrome
1933 – Kartagener described the syndrome of situs inversus, chronic rhinosinusitis, and chronic bronchitis with bronchiectasis
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 156
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 156 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Löffler syndrome
Löffler (Loeffler) syndrome is a transient, self-limiting, and benign pulmonary eosinophilia, characterised by pulmonary opacities on X-ray, elevated blood eosinophils and an acute onset of potential symptoms of mainly cough and dyspnoea.
Wilhelm Löffler
Wilhelm Löffler (1887 – 1972) was a Swiss physician. Löffler is eponymously associated with two clinical manifestations of eosinophilia which he described: transient pulmonary infiltrates with eosinophilia (Löffler syndrome, 1932) and endocarditis parietalis fibroplastica (Löffler endocarditis, 1936).