CXR eponyms in pulmonary embolism
Eponymythology associated with chest X-ray signs in pulmonary embolus and pulmonary infarction. We review related eponyms, the person behind their origin, their relevance today, and modern terminology
Category Cardiology
Sgarbossa Criteria history
Sgarbossa's rule, proposed for the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction in the presence of left bundle branch block. Sgarbossa Criteria can be used to assist in determining which patients with LBBB are having an AMI.
Walter Holbrook Gaskell
Walter Holbrook Gaskell (1847-1914) was a British physiologist central to our current understanding of cardiac physiology
Pierre Barrère
Pierre Barrère (1690 - 1755) was a French physician and naturalist. He published works in medicine, presenting cadaveric dissections and detailed descriptions of pathologies such as pericardial effusion
John Osborn
John J Osborn (1917 – 2014) was an American intensivist, pediatrician and inventor. Eponym: 'current of injury' Osborn wave - 1953
Arthur Ernest Sansom
Arthur Ernest Sansom (1838 - 1907) was an English physician and anaesthetist.
James Hope
Biography Medical Eponyms Hope sign (1832) Systolic protrusion and retraction of the anterior chest wall in patients with pericardial adhesions In five or six cases (and, since this was published seven years ago (1832), I may now say a much…
History of the Electrocardiogram
A brief history of the ECG and electrocardiography and the eponymous names behind the ECG/EKG...
James Sanders
Biography Medical Eponyms Sanders sign (1823) The undulatory character of the cardiac impulse in the epigastric region, indicative of adherent pericardium (l’adhérence du péricarde). Specifically the presence of a depression occurring under the left ribs and in the epigastrium during…
Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud
Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud (1796 - 1881) was a French physician. Bouillaud disease (1835), Bouillaud sign (1846), Bouillaud Law of Coincidence (1836)
Charles James Blasius Williams
Biography Medical Eponyms Williams sign (1840) Systolic protrusion of the precordium and retractions of the epigastrium in patients with adherent pericarditis Williams described the findings of inspection and palpation which he identified in patients with adherent pericarditis in his 1840…
Second-degree Atrioventricular block
Eponymythology of Second-degree Atrioventricular (AV) block including Luciani, Galabin, Wenckebach, Hay and Mobitz