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Graham-Steell-1851-1942

Graham Steell

Graham Steell (1851- 1942) was a Scottish physician and cardiologist. Graham Steell murmur: a high pitched early diastolic murmur (1888)

William Stokes (1804–1878) 680

William Stokes (physician)

William Stokes (1804–1878) was a pioneering Irish physician in cardiopulmonary diagnosis, famed for Cheyne–Stokes respiration and bedside clinical teaching.

SARS-CoV-2 the novel coronavirus of COVID-19 340

Survey Shoutout

Shoutouts for the COVID-19 Critical Care Staff Wellbeing Survey; and ED screening and patient flow management of suspected COVID-19 patients

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Whipple disease

Rare multi-system disorder secondary to chronic bacterial infection. Affecting the gastrointestinal tract most frequently. Chronic infection of the intestinal mucosa with the bacterium Tropheryma whipplei, leads to a lymphostasis; abdominal pain; malabsorption syndrome with diarrhea; and weight loss.

Gibson murmur 680

Gibson murmur

Gibson murmur (machinery murmur) associated with patent ductus arteriosus. Eponymously affiliated with George Alexander Gibson (1906)

Cole-Cecil murmur 1908 340

Cole-Cecil murmur

Early diastolic murmur of aortic insufficiency radiating with axillary radiation. (1908) Cole and Cecil examined 17 patients with provisonal diagnosis of aortic insufficiency and mapped the site of maximal intensity and axillary radiation of the early diastolic murmur.Early diastolic murmur of aortic insufficiency radiating with axillary radiation.

Rufus Ivory Cole (1872 – 1966) 340

Rufus Cole

Rufus Ivory Cole (1872 - 1966) was an American physician, and the first director of the Rockefellar Institute for Medical Research. Cole-Cecil Murmur