Karl Stellwag von Carion
Karl Stellwag von Carion (1823 – 1904) was an Austrian ophthalmologist. Eponym: Stellwag Sign (1869) in Graves orbitopathy
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Dalrymple sign
Dalrymple sign: Widened palpebral tissue (lid retraction) or lid spasm seen in thyrotoxicosis (Graves disease) by John Dalrymple (1852)
Graefe sign
von Graefe sign (lid lag sign): Failure of the upper lid to follow a downward movement of the eyeball when the patient changes his or her vision from looking up to looking down. Typically associated with hyperthyroidism and exophthalmos
Stellwag Sign
Stellwag Sign: decreased, incomplete or infrequent blinking in patients with exophthalmic goitre (Graves-Basedow disease). Stellwag sign may also seen in progressive supranuclear palsy, and in dysthyroid eye disease
Emanuel Libman
Emanuel Libman (1872 - 1946) was an American physician. 1924 - Along with his student Benjamin Sacks, defined atypical verrucous valvular lesions in patients with SLE (Libman–Sacks endocarditis)
Do you know John Hunter?
I am firmly convinced that the best book in medicine is the book of Nature, as writ large in the bodies of men. You remember the answer of the immortal Hunter...
Developing EM
Lee Fineberg and Mark Newcombe and the nnovative Developing EM conference. Moving on from the success of the first conference in Sydney, this year's conference heads to Havana Cuba in the interest of fostering the development of emergency medicine internationally.
dogma to believe
Some dogma i do believe in
Carlo Mondini
Carlo Mondini (1729 – 1803) was an Italian anatomist and physician. Described the Mondini deformity of the inner ear with congenital deafness in 1791
Pendred syndrome
Pendred syndrome: autosomal recessive genetic disorder (chromosome 7q31), characterized by congenital sensorineural deafness and goitre.
Vaughan Pendred
Vaughan Pendred (1869–1946) was an English GP. Pendred first described the syndrome of bilateral sensorineural hearing loss with goitre (Pendred syndrome)
The Mystery of Chronic Pain
We often look at chronic pain patients in the emergency department as the bain of our existence. These patients patients will often challenge, confront and test all of our diagnostic and empathetic capabilities. But is it time for a better understanding and outlook at this…