Category Obstetrics Gynaecology

Harold Leeming Sheehan (1900-1988) 680

Harold Sheehan

Harold Leeming Sheehan (1900-1988) was an English physician and pathologist. Eponymously remembered for his description of Sheehan Syndrome in 1937

Sheehan Syndrome

Sheehan Syndrome

Postpartum hypopituitarism following ischaemic necrosis of the anterior pituitary gland. Pituitary necrosis occurs secondary to hypophyseal portal vessel thrombosis following significant postpartum haemorrhage, hypovolemia, and shock.

eponym LITFL 340

Adolphe Pinard

Adolphe Pinard (1844–1934) was a French obstetrician. Inventor of the Pinard horn (fetoscope) and Pinard Obstetric Palpation

Irving Freiler Stein (1887-1976)

Irving Stein

Irving Freiler Stein (1887-1976) was an American gynaecologist. remembered for his contribution to the field of infertility and eponymously for the Stein–Leventhal Syndrome (1934)

LITFL Fellowship Finishing School FFS 680

BHCG, Rhesus D and Progesterone

15% of the population are Rhesus negative; Rh D immunoglobulin is administered to non-sensitised Rh D negative women to prevent the development of Rh D antibodies and in so doing prevent Rh D induced haemolytic disease of the newborn.

Edward Harry Bishop (1913-1995) 680

Edward Bishop

Edward Harry Bishop (1913-1995) was an American obstetrician and gynecologist. Bishop Score (1964), a method to evaluate the cervix in regard to the success or failure of induction of labor.