Joseph Skoda
Joseph Škoda (1805–1881) was a Czech physician. Eponym: Skodaic ressonance (1837) - third class of percussion sounds
Category Cardiology
Luigi Galvani
Luigi Galvani (1737 - 1798) Italian obstetrician, surgeon and anatomist. Discovered the physiological action of electricity and demonstrated the existence of natural electric current in animal tissue - "the electrical forces in muscular movements" or the 'animal electricity'
Austin Flint
Austin Flint (1812-1886) American Physician. Eponym - mid-diastolic aortic regurgitant murmur heard at the apex - Austin Flint Murmur 1862
Roger’s murmur
Roger’s murmur: holosystolic, loud murmur compared to the sound of a 'rushing waterfall'. Associated with ventricular septal defects (VSD)
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)