Echo basics: Aortic Valve
Echo basics: Aortic Valve. A normal aortic valve is trileaflet, with equally sized cusps that are supported by a fibrous annulus and separated by three commissures.
Echo basics: Aortic Valve. A normal aortic valve is trileaflet, with equally sized cusps that are supported by a fibrous annulus and separated by three commissures.
Bruno Fleischer (1874-1965) German ophthalmologist; Kayser–Fleischer ring (Wilson’s disease) and Fleischer ring in keratoconus
Scottish surgeon T.K. Dalziel (1861–1924) early description of Crohn’s disease, led children’s surgery in Glasgow, and was knighted for WWI medical service.
William Ganz (1919–2009), Slovakian-born cardiologist, co-invented the Swan-Ganz catheter and pioneered thermodilution in cardiovascular research
Gordon David Oppenheimer (1900 - 1974) was an American surgeon and urologist.
John Abercrombie (1780–1844), Scottish physician, pioneered neuropathology and GI research, and described early cases resembling Crohn’s disease in 1828
Leon Ginzburg (1898–1988), American surgeon Mount Sinai and Beth Israel; co-describer of regional ileitis (Crohn’s disease).
Anna Wessels Williams (1863–1954), American bacteriologist and public health pioneer, advanced diphtheria treatment and women in medicine
Echocardiography basics. Grading and quantifying mitral stenosis (MS) with planimetry, pulsed wave Doppler, PHT and Continuity Equation Method
Chronic inflammatory bowel disease affecting the GI tract, Crohn’s disease was first defined in 1932 but described decades earlier by Dalziel and others
Burrill B. Crohn (1884–1983), pioneering gastroenterologist and namesake of Crohn’s disease. Discover his life, work, and medical legacy
Eli Moschcowitz (1879–1964), pathologist who first described TTP and pioneered early psychosomatic medicine, influencing the biopsychosocial model.