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Sape Talma
Dutch surgeon, born December 20, 1847, Dokkum, died June 20, 1918, Utrecht.
Associated eponyms:
Drummond-Talma operation
Operation for the relief of ascites in cirrhosis of the liver.
Gibson's syndrome
A hereditary haematological disease which is a congenital variant of Stokvis-Talma syndrome.
Stokvis-Talma syndrome
Autotoxic cyanosis, enterogenic cyanosis, enterogenous cyanosis, idiopathic methemoglobinaemia, sulfhaemoglobinaemia.
Talma's syndrome
Acquired myotonia, a condition marked by prolonged contraction and spasm of muscles.
Biography:
Sape Talma attended the University of Utrecht and received his doctorate in 1873. In 1876 he assumed the chair of pathological anatomy at this university, but a few years later changed it for that of internal clinics, with which he was connected until his death in 1918.
Talma’s most important work was on the collateral circulation in liver diseases, and the operation suggested by him for the healing of ascites in liver cirrhosis.
Bibliography:
- Beiträge zur Theorie der Herz- und Arterientöne.
Deutsches Archiv für klinische Medizin, 1874, 15: 77-98.
- Zur Genese der Herztöne. Archiv für die gesammte Physiologie des Menschen und der Thiere. Bonn, 1880, 23: 275-278.
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