Chronological review of the eponyms of aortic regurgitation / insufficiency based on the 31 signs proposed by Ashrafian (2005) and Zacek (2018)
Cardiology
Friedrich von Müller
Friedrich von Müller (1858 – 1941) was a German physician.
ECG Rule of Fours
aka ECG Interpretation Made Easy One day, in a town not too far from here, the ICU registrar (you) is admitting a 60 year old male, who has just been brought into the emergency department with profound weakness, and needed to be intubated for respiratory failure. They were struggling in the ER, all resuscitation bays […]
ECG Case 117
ECG of a 14yr old female who presents following an episode of palpitations and associated dizziness. Interpret her ECG using the Arruda algorithm
Ultrasound Case 094
A 68 year old male presents 2 weeks post coronary artery bypass grafting. He describes continuing chest wall pain, increasing shortness of breath and poor exercise tolerance. You wonder whether this is a pericardial effusion have a look.
History of the Electrocardiogram
A brief (…and frequently updated) history of electrocardiography and the eponymous names behind the ECG/EKG…
Second-degree Atrioventricular block
Eponymythology of Second-degree Atrioventricular (AV) block including Luciani, Galabin, Wenckebach, Hay and Mobitz
Thomas Cuming
Biography Born 1798 Armagh, Northern Ireland 1818 MD, Edinburgh University 1820 Physician to the Dublin General Dispensary 1854 MD, Dublin 1854 Fellow of the King and Queen’s College of Physicians of Ireland two years before Corrigan, who had previously been blackballed for the Fellowship in 1847. Died 1887 Armagh, Northern Ireland Medical Eponyms Cuming sign […]
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