Roger’s murmur
Roger’s murmur: holosystolic, loud murmur compared to the sound of a 'rushing waterfall'. Associated with ventricular septal defects (VSD)
Category Cardiology
Henri-Louis Roger
Henri-Louis Roger (1809 – 1891) was a French paediatrician. Bruit de Roger and the misnomer... Maladie de Roger (Roger's disease)
Cabot-Locke murmur
The Cabot-Locke murmur is an early diastolic murmur found in patients with severe anaemia. The murmur resolves with treatment of the anaemia. There is no functional valvular abnormality present.
Richard Clarke Cabot
Richard Clarke Cabot (1868-1939) American physician - clinical haematology; pioneering approach to social work; Cabot-Locke murmur (1903)
Edwin Allen Locke
Edwin Allen Locke (1874-1971) was an American Physician involved care and treatment of TB and pulmonary disease. Eponym: Cabot-Locke murmur (1903)
Carey Coombs murmur
Carey Coombs murmur: short mid-diastolic murmur with active rheumatic carditis and mitral-valve inflammation. 1907 Carey Coombs (1879-1932)
Carey Franklin Coombs
Carey Franklin Coombs (1879-1932) British cardiologist. Known for his work on rheumatic and coronary heart disease. Eponym: Carey Coombs murmur
Graham Steell murmur
Graham Steell murmur: soft, blowing, decrescendo early diastolic murmur of pulmonary incompetence caused by pulmonary hypertension
Graham Steell
Graham Steell (1851- 1942) was a Scottish physician and cardiologist. Graham Steell murmur: a high pitched early diastolic murmur (1888)
Aortic Regurgitation Eponymythology
Chronological review of the clinical signs aortic regurgitation / insufficiency. 31 eponyms proposed by Ashrafian (2005) and Zacek (2018)
William Stokes (physician)
William Stokes (1804–1878) was an Irish physician. Eponymously affiliated with Cheyne-Stokes respiration and Stokes-Adams syndrome
CXR Case 157
A 79 year old female with a history of atrial fibrillation and hypertension presents with increasing dyspnea. Interpret the evolving CXR's