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Giovanni Maria Lancisi

Biography Born 26 October 1654 Died 20 January 1720 Medical Eponyms Sign Key Medical Attributions 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…

Mike Cadogan
January 4, 2020

Pierre Merklen

Pierre Félix Merklen (1852 - 1906) was a French physician and cardiologist.

Mike Cadogan
January 2, 2020

Friedrich Ludwig Kreysig

Friedrich Ludwig Kreysig (1779 - 1839) was a German physician and botanist. Described the Heim-Kreysig sign (1816)

Mike Cadogan
January 2, 2020

Ernst Ludwig Heim

Ernst Ludwig Heim (1747 - 1834) was a German physician and naturalist. Heim-Kreysig sign (1816) adherent pericarditis

Mike Cadogan
January 2, 2020

Auguste-Nicolas Gendrin

Auguste-Nicolas Gendrin (1796 - 1890) was a French physician.

Mike Cadogan
January 2, 2020

Richard Lower

Richard Lower (1631 - 1691) was an English physiologist. Early descriptions of cardiac tamponade, pericarditis, blood transfusion, xenotransfusion

Mike Cadogan
January 2, 2020

Ultrasound Case 094

A 68 year old male presents 2 weeks post coronary artery bypass grafting. He describes continuing chest wall pain, increasing shortness of breath and poor exercise tolerance. You wonder whether this is a pericardial effusion have a look.

James Rippey
May 29, 2019

Eli Moschcowitz

Eli Moschcowitz (1879 - 1964) was a Hungarian born, American pathologist and physician. Associated with Moschcowitz disease (TTP, 1925); Moschcowitz signa dn triad (1933)