|
Disclaimer:
Whonamedit.com does not give medical advice.
This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is meant as a general interest site only. No information found here must under any circumstances be used for medical purposes, diagnostically, therapeutically or otherwise. If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor.
|
A recommendation:
Hypography is an open community about science and all things related
|
|
|
Charcot's triad II
Associated persons:
Jean-Martin Charcot
B. M. Reynolds
Description:
The combination of jaundice; fever, usually with rigors; and upper quadrant abdominal pain. Occurs as a result of cholangitis.
When the presentation also also includes hypotension and mental status changes, it is known as Reynolds' pentad. See under B. M. Reynolds.
We thank Rich Catharina for information submitted.
Bibliography:
- J. M. Charcot:
Leçons sur les maladies du foie, des voies biliaires et des reins faites à la Faculté de Médecine de Paris.
Recueillies et publliées par Bourneville et Sevestre.
Paris: Bureaux du Progrés Médical & Adrien Delahaye, 1877. 480 pages.
English translation, New York, 1878.
Referring to Désiré-Magloire Bourneville (1840-1909) and Louis-Arthur Sevestre (1843-1907).
|
|
|
