Medical Specialty
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.

Gaspard Vieusseux (1746-1814) 680

Gaspard Vieusseux

Swiss physician Gaspard Vieusseux (1746–1814) described cerebrospinal meningitis in 1805 and gave the first clinical account of lateral medullary syndrome.

Adriaan van den Spiegel (1578-1625) 680

Adriaan van den Spiegel

Adriaan van den Spiegel (1578–1625), Flemish anatomist; described Spigelian line, fascia, hernia, and liver lobe in his posthumous atlas.

Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771) 680

Giovanni Battista Morgagni

Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682–1771), father of pathology, pioneered clinico-anatomical correlation; his De sedibus shaped modern medicine.

Vincenz Alexander Bohdalek (1801–1883) 680

Vincent Bochdalek

Vincenz Alexander Bochdalek (1801–1883), Bohemian anatomist who described congenital diaphragmatic hernia and the choroid plexus ‘flower basket’.

LITFL Fellowship Finishing School FFS 680

Acute Aortic Dissection

Acute Aortic Dissection (AAD) is uncommon but highly lethal, requiring prompt recognition and management. Due to its non-specific clinical presentation, a high index of suspicion is necessary, particularly in high-risk patients.

eponym LITFL 340

Adolphe Pinard

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