Heart HQ: Hypertension
Heart HQ - Episode 16: Hypertension. According to the Heart Foundation, 1 in 3 adults have high blood pressure in Australia. As many people are asymptomatic, they may be unaware they have hypertension.
Category Medical Specialty
Rigler triad
Rigler triad; Imaging findings in patients with gallstone ileus with an ectopic gallstone causing small bowel obstruction, and pneumobilia
Léon Bouveret
Léon Bouveret (1850-1929) was a French internal medicine physician. Eponymous terms Maladie de Bouveret (1889) and Bouveret Syndrome (1895)
Bouveret Syndrome
Bouveret syndrome: gastric outlet obstruction following passage of a gallstone from gallbladder to duodenum/pylorus via bilioenteric fistula
Ivan Magill
Sir Ivan Whiteside Magill (1888 – 1986) was an Irish Anaesthetist. Epomnymously affiliated with various anaesthetic devices such as the Magill forceps
Josef Jadassohn
Josef Jadassohn (1863 - 1936) was a German dermatologist. Jadassohn-Lewandowsky syndrome (pachyonychia congenita) (1906); Borst-Jadassohn; Jadassohn-Tièche blue naevus; Jadassohn-Bloch Technique
CPR and Pregnancy
Cardiac arrest in pregnancy is a rare occurrence. There are a few common aetiologies and considerations while resuscitating.
Robert Willan
Biography Medical Eponyms Key Medical Contributions Major Publications Controversies References Biography Eponymous terms
Persevering: Best and Worst Year
A 6-part series on “Persevering Through A Pandemic”. Episode 4 - The Best and Worst Year with clinical psychologist Dr Julie Highfield
Felix Lewandowsky
Felix Lewandowsky (1879-1921) was a German dermatologist. Jadassohn–Lewandowsky syndrome, Lewandowsky’s syndrome, Lewandowsky–Lutz dysplasia and Lewandowsky tuberculid
Florence R. Sabin
Florence Rena Sabin (1871-1953) American anatomist and medical researcher. Early description (1900) of Mees lines of the fingernails secondary to arsenic poisoning
Frank Johnson
Frank Chambliss Johnson (1894 – 1934) was an American pediatrician. Along with Albert Mason Stevens (1884 – 1945), is eponymously affiliated with Stevens-Johnson syndrome