Category Medical Specialty
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Kawasaki disease

Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute self-limited febrile multisystem vasculitis of childhood of unknown aetiology in which coronary artery aneurysms (CAA) may develop in 15% - 25% of untreated cases.

Jules Sottas (1866–1945) 340

Jules Sottas

Jules Sottas (1866–1945) was a French neurologist, historian and astronomer. Dejerine-Sottas Disease (1893)

George Alexander Gibson (1854-1913) 680

George A. Gibson

George Alexander Gibson (1854 – 1913) was a Scottish physician. Eponymously affiliated with the Gibson murmur (1906)

eponym LITFL 340

Patrick Collins

Patrick Gerard Collins (1923 - 1999) was an Irish general surgeon specialising in biliary tract surgery. Collins sign (2009)

André-Alfred Lemierre (1875 – 1956) 1200

André Lemierre

André-Alfred Lemierre (1875 – 1956) was a French bacteriologist. Best known for his 1836 publication on the condition now known as Lemierre syndrome