Giovanni Maria Lancisi

Biography

• Born October 26, 1654
• Died January 20, 1720

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Medical Eponyms

Lancisi Sign

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Key Medical Contributions

Commotio cordis (1707)

Sic olim vidimus, inflicto vehementer pugno sub cartilagine mucronata, vitae nodum ex tempore solutum; nimirum quod eo loci una conuenivnt, valideque per nerueam, ac tendineam cohaesionem iunguntur sinistrum ventriculi orificium – I once saw the knot of life instantly undone when a man received a powerful blow from a fist under the xiphoid cartilage. https://archive.org/details/b30537307/page/30/mode/2up

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Major Publications

• Jo Mariae Lancisii. De subitaneis mortibus libri duo. 1708
• Jo Mariae Lancisii. Dissertatio de nativis, deque adventitiis Romani coeli qualitatibus, cui accedit historia epidemiae rheumaticae, quae per hyemem anni 1709 vagata est. 1711
• Jo Mariae Lancisii. Dissertatio historica de bovilla peste. 1715
• Jo Mariae Lancisii. De noxiis paludum effluviis, eorumque remediis. Libri duo. 1717
• Jo Mariae Lancisii. Opera quae hactenus prodierunt omnia. Tome I, Tome II. 1718
• Johannis Mariæ Lancisii. De motu cordis et aneurysmatibus opus postumum in duas partes divisum. 1738

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Controversies

Alternate names: Giovanni Maria Lancisi; Johannes Maria Lancisius; Jo Mariae Lancisii; Johannis Mariæ Lancisii

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References

Biography

• Editorial. Giovanni Maria Lancisi (1654-1720) – cardiologist, forensic physician, epidemiologist. JAMA. 1964;189:375-6.
• White PD, Boursy AV. Translation of De subitaneis mortibus (On Sudden Deaths). 1971
• Michaels L. Pain of cardiovascular origin in the writings of Giovanni Maria Lancisi. Can Med Assoc J. 1972 Feb 19;106(4):371-3.
• McDougall JI, Michaels L. Cardiovascular Causes of Sudden Death in “De Subitaneis Mortibus” by Giovanni Maria Lancisi. A Translation From the Original Latin. Bulletin of the history of medicine. 1972; 46(5): 486-494.
• Fye WB. Giovanni Maria Lancisi, 1654-1720. Clin Cardiol. 1990; 13(9): 670-1.
• Mantovani A, Zanetti R. Giovanni Maria Lancisi: De bovilla peste and stamping out. Historia medicinae veterinariae. 1993;18(4):97-110.
• Gazzaniga V. Giovanni Maria Lancisi and urology in Rome in early modern age. J Nephrol. 2003; 16(6): 939-44.

Commotio Cordis

• Maron BJ, Estes NA 3rd. Commotio cordis. N Engl J Med 2010; 362: 917-27.
• Maron BJ, Doerer JJ, Haas TS, Estes NA 3rd, Link MS. Historical observation on commotio cordis. Heart Rhythm. 2006; 3(5): 605-6.
• Shivkumar K, Boyle NG. Giovanni Maria Lancisi’s description of commotio cordis. Heart Rhythm. 2020; 17(4): 674-675.

Lancisi sign

• Senguttuvan NB, Karthikeyan G. Jugular venous C-V wave in severe tricuspid regurgitation. N Engl J Med 2012;2013:e5
• Srinivas SK, Bhat P, Agrawal N, Manjunath CN. Lancisi sign. BMJ Case Rep. 2013; bcr2013200023.
• Hudzik B, Poloński L, Gąsior M. Lancisi sign: giant C-V waves of tricuspid regurgitation. Intern Emerg Med. 2016; 11(8): 1139-1140.
• Mansoor AM. Mansoor SE. Lancisi’s Sign. N Engl J Med 2016; 374:e2
• Johner N, Ronchard T, Boillat O, Giannakopoulos G, Rey F. Lancisi’s Sign: The Giant Venous Wave. Am J Med Sci. 2018; 356(3): e29.
• Jud P, Verheyen N. Lancisi sign in a 69-year-old man with severe tricuspid regurgitation. CMAJ 2018; 190(1): E17 [Videos]