| Eponyms in category: Heart |
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| Abramov-Fiedler myocarditis (Fiedler's myocarditis) |
| A rare, idiopathic, and frequently fatal form of diffuse myocarditis/viral myocarditis of unknown cause, not affecting the endocardium and pericardium. |
| Abrams' heart reflex |
| A roentgenologically demonstrable cutivisceral reflex phenomenon of the heart: contraction of the heart muscle when the skin of the precordial region is irritated. |
| Abrams' heart reflex II |
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| Abrams' reflex (Abrams' heart reflex) |
| A roentgenologically demonstrable cutivisceral reflex phenomenon of the heart: contraction of the heart muscle when the skin of the precordial region is irritated. |
| Adams-Stokes disease (Adams-Stokes syndrome (Robert Adams)) |
| A syncope triggered by heart arrythmia. |
| Adams-Stokes syncope (Robert Adams) (Adams-Stokes syndrome (Robert Adams)) |
| A syncope triggered by heart arrythmia. |
| Adams-Stokes syndrome (Robert Adams) |
| A syncope triggered by heart arrythmia. |
| Albini's nodes |
| Minute Nodules on margin of mitral and tricuspid valves of the heart; sometimes seen in newborns. |
| Aneurysm of sinus of Valsalva |
| A thin-walled tubular outpouching usually in the right or noncoronary sinus |
| Aschner-Dagnini bulbus pressure test (Aschner-Dagnini test (Giuseppe Dagnini)) |
| Slowing of the pulse following pressures applied to the eyeball or the carotid sinus. |
| Aschner-Dagnini test (Giuseppe Dagnini) |
| Slowing of the pulse following pressures applied to the eyeball or the carotid sinus. |
| Aschner’s bulbus reflex (Aschner-Dagnini test (Giuseppe Dagnini)) |
| Slowing of the pulse following pressures applied to the eyeball or the carotid sinus. |
| Aschner’s oculocardial reflex (Aschner-Dagnini test (Giuseppe Dagnini)) |
| Slowing of the pulse following pressures applied to the eyeball or the carotid sinus. |
| Aschner’s phenomenon (Aschner-Dagnini test (Giuseppe Dagnini)) |
| Slowing of the pulse following pressures applied to the eyeball or the carotid sinus. |
| Aschoff-Tawara node (Tawara's node) |
| The atrioventricular node which is the beginning of the auricular-ventricular bundle of His. |
| Ashman's unit |
| Unit in electrocardiography. |
| Auenbrugger's sign |
| The bulging of the epigastric region in cases of extensive pericardial effusion.
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| Austin Flint's murmur (Flint's murmur or symptom) |
| A presystolic or late diastolic (mitral) heart murmur best heard at the apex of the heart. |
| Ayerza's syndrome or disease |
| Condition characterised by dyspnea, slowly developing asthma, bronchitis, and chronic cyanosis in association with polycythemia. |
| Ayerza-Arrilaga syndrome |
| An obsolete eponym used to indicate a variety of Ayerza's syndrome, when due to chronic bronchopulmonary syphilis and to a syphilitic obliterans sclerosis of the pulmonary artery. |
| Bachmann's bundle |
| The intraauricular bundle. |
| Bainbridge's reflex |
| Increased heart rate due to an increase of the right atrial pressure. |
| Bamberger-Pins-Ewart sign (Ewart's sign) |
| Typically localized pulmonary auscultation- and percussion phenomenon in large pericardial effusion, |
| Barlow's syndrome |
| A form of congenital heart disease in which one or both leaflets of the mitral valve protrude into the left atrium during the systolic phase of ventricular contraction. |
| Beau's syndrome |
| Syndrome characterized by myocardial insufficiency and inability of the heart to perform a complete systole. |
| Beck's triad (Claude Schaeffer Beck) |
| A triad characteristic of acute cardiac tamponade. |
| Bernard-Scholz syndrome (Kearns-Sayre syndrome) |
| Syndrome characterised by unilateral or bilateral progressive weakness of muscles of eyelids, up to severe ptosis, pigmentary degeneration of retina, cardiomegaly/cardiomyopathy, and heart failure. |
| Blalock-Hanlon operation |
| Creation of a large atrial septal defect without cardiopulmonary bypass as a palliative procedure for complete transposition of the great arteries. |
| Blalock-Hanlon shunt (Blalock-Hanlon operation) |
| Creation of a large atrial septal defect without cardiopulmonary bypass as a palliative procedure for complete transposition of the great arteries. |
| Blalock-Taussig operation |
| Palliative operation for malformations of the heart, commonly used for children born with Fallot's tetralogy - «blue baby» syndrome. |
| Bouillaud's disease |
| A systemic inflammatory disease, characterised by acute attacks of fever spaced by remissions, the presence of acute joint disorder, endocarditis and pericarditis. |
| Bourneville's disease (Bourneville-Pringle disease) |
| A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney. |
| Bourneville's syndrome (Bourneville-Pringle disease) |
| A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney. |
| Bourneville's syndrome |
| Adenoma sebaceum, tuberous sclerosis, mental deficiency, and convulsions, without the subungual and periungual warty fibromas of Bourneville-Pringle.
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| Bourneville-Brissaud disease (Bourneville-Pringle disease) |
| A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney. |
| Bourneville-Pringle disease |
| A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney. |
| Bourneville–Pringle disease (Bourneville-Pringle disease) |
| A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney. |
| Czermak's vagus pressure |
| Czermak found that mechanical pressure on a spot of the carotid triangle in the neck produced lowering of the heart rate and subsequent loss of consciousness. |
| Dagnini’s reflex (Aschner-Dagnini test (Giuseppe Dagnini)) |
| Slowing of the pulse following pressures applied to the eyeball or the carotid sinus. |
| Ebstein's anomaly |
| A very rare congenital condition of the heart with facultative cyanosis and downward displacement of the tricuspid valve from the annulus fibrosus. |
| Ebstein’s malformation (Ebstein's anomaly) |
| A very rare congenital condition of the heart with facultative cyanosis and downward displacement of the tricuspid valve from the annulus fibrosus. |
| Ebstein’s syndrome (Ebstein's anomaly) |
| A very rare congenital condition of the heart with facultative cyanosis and downward displacement of the tricuspid valve from the annulus fibrosus. |
| Eggleston's method |
| Rapid digitalisation by means of large doses of digitalis leaf or tincture frequently repeated. |
| Einthoven's law |
| In the electrocardiogram at any given instant the potential of any wave in lead 2 is equal to the sum of the potentials in lead I and III. |
| Einthoven's triangle |
| An imaginary equilateral triangle with the heart at its centre, its equal sided representing the three standard limb leads of the electrocardiogram.
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| Einthoven’s equation (Einthoven's law) |
| In the electrocardiogram at any given instant the potential of any wave in lead 2 is equal to the sum of the potentials in lead I and III. |
| Eisenmenger's complex (Victor Eisenmenger) |
| A congenital heart defect with an abnormal connection between system circulation and lung circulation. |
| Eisenmenger's syndrome (Victor Eisenmenger) |
| A congenital, progressive cardiac failure usually due to the Eisenmenger complex. |
| Eisenmenger’s defect, (Eisenmenger's complex (Victor Eisenmenger)) |
| A congenital heart defect with an abnormal connection between system circulation and lung circulation. |
| Eisenmenger’s disease (Eisenmenger's complex (Victor Eisenmenger)) |
| A congenital heart defect with an abnormal connection between system circulation and lung circulation. |
| Eisenmenger’s reaction (Eisenmenger's syndrome (Victor Eisenmenger)) |
| A congenital, progressive cardiac failure usually due to the Eisenmenger complex. |
| Eisenmenger’s syndrome (Eisenmenger's complex (Victor Eisenmenger)) |
| A congenital heart defect with an abnormal connection between system circulation and lung circulation. |
| Eisenmenger’s tetralogy (Eisenmenger's complex (Victor Eisenmenger)) |
| A congenital heart defect with an abnormal connection between system circulation and lung circulation. |
| Ewart's sign |
| Typically localized pulmonary auscultation- and percussion phenomenon in large pericardial effusion, |
| Fallot V (Fallot's pentalogy) |
| The four characteristics of Fallot's tetralogy syndrome, plus a patent foramen ovale or atrial septal defect. It occurs rarely. |
| Fallot's pentalogy |
| The four characteristics of Fallot's tetralogy syndrome, plus a patent foramen ovale or atrial septal defect. It occurs rarely. |
| Fallot's tetralogy |
| A congenital condition characterized by stenosis of the pulmonal artery, defect in the interventricular septum, dextroposition of the aorta, and hypertrophy of the right ventricle. |
| Fallot's tetralogy - balanced shunt syndrome |
| A variant of Fallot's tetralogy characterised by spells of intermittent cyanosis, hyperpnoea and syncope. |
| Fallot's trilogy |
| A triad of pulmonary stenosis, intraatrial septal defect, and a closed interventricular septum. |
| Fallot’s syndrome (Fallot's tetralogy) |
| A congenital condition characterized by stenosis of the pulmonal artery, defect in the interventricular septum, dextroposition of the aorta, and hypertrophy of the right ventricle. |
| Fallot’s tetrad (Fallot's tetralogy) |
| A congenital condition characterized by stenosis of the pulmonal artery, defect in the interventricular septum, dextroposition of the aorta, and hypertrophy of the right ventricle. |
| Fiedler's cardiomyopathy (Fiedler's myocarditis) |
| A rare, idiopathic, and frequently fatal form of diffuse myocarditis/viral myocarditis of unknown cause, not affecting the endocardium and pericardium. |
| Fiedler's myocarditis |
| A rare, idiopathic, and frequently fatal form of diffuse myocarditis/viral myocarditis of unknown cause, not affecting the endocardium and pericardium. |
| Fiedler's syndrome (Fiedler's myocarditis) |
| A rare, idiopathic, and frequently fatal form of diffuse myocarditis/viral myocarditis of unknown cause, not affecting the endocardium and pericardium. |
| Flack's test |
| Endurance test of the heart. |
| Flint's murmur or symptom |
| A presystolic or late diastolic (mitral) heart murmur best heard at the apex of the heart. |
| Frank-Starling law of the heart |
| The fundamental principle of cardiac behaviour which states that the force of contraction of the cardiac muscle is proportional to its initial length. |
| Frank-Straub-Starling law (Frank-Starling law of the heart) |
| The fundamental principle of cardiac behaviour which states that the force of contraction of the cardiac muscle is proportional to its initial length. |
| Gerbec-Morgagni-Adams-Stokes syndrome (Adams-Stokes syndrome (Robert Adams)) |
| A syncope triggered by heart arrythmia. |
| Gerbezius-Morgagni-Adams-Stokes syndrome (Adams-Stokes syndrome (Robert Adams)) |
| A syncope triggered by heart arrythmia. |
| Hanging heart, Wenkebach's type (Wenckebach's heart) |
| A heart which is located in the middle line of the thorax (mesocardia) and smaller than normal.
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| Hegglin's syndrome |
| Energetic-dynamic heart insufficiency. |
| Kaposi-Besnier-Libman-Sacks syndrome (Libman-Sacks syndrome) |
| An atypical, verrucous, nonbacterial, valvular and mural endocarditis. Final stage of systemic lupus erythematodes. |
| Kazem-Beck's syndrome |
| A symptom complex which is common in the presence of aneurysm of the anterior wall of the left chamber of the heart. |
| Kearns' syndrome (Kearns-Sayre syndrome) |
| Syndrome characterised by unilateral or bilateral progressive weakness of muscles of eyelids, up to severe ptosis, pigmentary degeneration of retina, cardiomegaly/cardiomyopathy, and heart failure. |
| Kearns-Sayre syndrome |
| Syndrome characterised by unilateral or bilateral progressive weakness of muscles of eyelids, up to severe ptosis, pigmentary degeneration of retina, cardiomegaly/cardiomyopathy, and heart failure. |
| Kearns-Sayre-Daroff syndrome (Kearns-Sayre syndrome) |
| Syndrome characterised by unilateral or bilateral progressive weakness of muscles of eyelids, up to severe ptosis, pigmentary degeneration of retina, cardiomegaly/cardiomyopathy, and heart failure. |
| Kearns-Shy syndrome (Kearns-Sayre syndrome) |
| Syndrome characterised by unilateral or bilateral progressive weakness of muscles of eyelids, up to severe ptosis, pigmentary degeneration of retina, cardiomegaly/cardiomyopathy, and heart failure. |
| Keith-Flack node |
| The pacemaker of the heart |
| Keith’s bundle (Keith-Flack node) |
| The pacemaker of the heart |
| Keith’s node (Keith-Flack node) |
| The pacemaker of the heart |
| Koch's triangle (Walter Karl Koch) |
| A triangular shaped area in the right atrium of the heart. |
| Koch’s nodes (Walter Karl Koch) (Tawara's node) |
| The atrioventricular node which is the beginning of the auricular-ventricular bundle of His. |
| Laënnec's thrombus |
| Globular thrombus in the heart.
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| Lannelongue's foramina |
| A number of fossae in the wall of the right atrium. |
| Lannelongue's ligaments |
| Fibrous bands that pass from the pericardium to the sternum.
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| Laubry-Pezzi syndrome |
| Congenital heart defect syndrome. |
| Libman's endocarditis (Libman-Sacks syndrome) |
| An atypical, verrucous, nonbacterial, valvular and mural endocarditis. Final stage of systemic lupus erythematodes. |
| Libman-Sacks disease (Libman-Sacks syndrome) |
| An atypical, verrucous, nonbacterial, valvular and mural endocarditis. Final stage of systemic lupus erythematodes. |
| Libman-Sacks syndrome |
| An atypical, verrucous, nonbacterial, valvular and mural endocarditis. Final stage of systemic lupus erythematodes. |
| Luciani's period (Wenckebach's phenomenon) |
| A sequence of cardiac cycles in the electrocardiogram. |
| Luciani-Wenkebach block (Wenckebach's phenomenon) |
| A sequence of cardiac cycles in the electrocardiogram. |
| Löffler's endocarditis |
| A very rare form of endocarditis associated with a highly increased number of eosinophilic granulocytes in the blood. |
| Löffler's endomyocarditis (Löffler's endocarditis) |
| A very rare form of endocarditis associated with a highly increased number of eosinophilic granulocytes in the blood. |
| Löffler’s fibroblastic endocarditis (Löffler's endocarditis) |
| A very rare form of endocarditis associated with a highly increased number of eosinophilic granulocytes in the blood. |
| Løffler’s syndrome (Löffler's endocarditis) |
| A very rare form of endocarditis associated with a highly increased number of eosinophilic granulocytes in the blood. |
| Maladie de Bourneville (Bourneville-Pringle disease) |
| A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney. |
| Master's test |
| A standardized test used to assess cardiac function, particularly by taking ECG before and after exercise. |
| Master's two-step exercise test (Master's test) |
| A standardized test used to assess cardiac function, particularly by taking ECG before and after exercise. |
| Master’s two-step test (Master's test) |
| A standardized test used to assess cardiac function, particularly by taking ECG before and after exercise. |
| Mobitz' block type I (Wenckebach's phenomenon) |
| A sequence of cardiac cycles in the electrocardiogram. |
| Mobitz' block type I and II |
| Atrioventricular block of first and second degree. |
| Morbus Ayerza (Ayerza's syndrome or disease) |
| Condition characterised by dyspnea, slowly developing asthma, bronchitis, and chronic cyanosis in association with polycythemia. |
| Morgagni-Adams-Stokes attack (Robert Adams) (Adams-Stokes syndrome (Robert Adams)) |
| A syncope triggered by heart arrythmia. |
| Morgagni-Adams-Stokes syndrome (Robert Adams) (Adams-Stokes syndrome (Robert Adams)) |
| A syncope triggered by heart arrythmia. |
| Morgagni’s syndrome (Adams-Stokes syndrome (Robert Adams)) |
| A syncope triggered by heart arrythmia. |
| Morquio's disease |
| Congenital atrioventricular block associated with s septal defect of the heart. |
| Osler-Libman-Sacks syndrome (Libman-Sacks syndrome) |
| An atypical, verrucous, nonbacterial, valvular and mural endocarditis. Final stage of systemic lupus erythematodes. |
| Pins' sign |
| In pericarditis, the disappearance of symptoms of pleurisy and loss of pain when patient leans forward to the knee-chest position. |
| Pins' syndrome (Ewart's sign) |
| Typically localized pulmonary auscultation- and percussion phenomenon in large pericardial effusion, |
| Pringle's adenoma sebaceum (Bourneville-Pringle disease) |
| A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney. |
| Pringle's disease (Bourneville-Pringle disease) |
| A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney. |
| Remak's ganglion |
| Nerve ganglion, a group of nerve cells where the coronary sinus enters the right atrium.
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| Rheinhard's myocarditis |
| Fiedler's myocarditis associated with extensive eosinophilic infiltrations. |
| Rokitansky's disease II (Von Rokitansky's syndrome) |
| Congenital heart defect with second sound accentuated at left of sternum. |
| Rokitansky-Maude Abbott syndrome |
| Congenital cardiopathy. |
| Romano-Ward syndrome |
| Prolongation of Q-T interval on the electrocardiogram, usually in association with syncope, ventricular tachyarrythmia, and sudden death. |
| Sokolskii-Bouillaud disease (Bouillaud's disease) |
| A systemic inflammatory disease, characterised by acute attacks of fever spaced by remissions, the presence of acute joint disorder, endocarditis and pericarditis. |
| Spens' syndrome (Adams-Stokes syndrome (Robert Adams)) |
| A syncope triggered by heart arrythmia. |
| Stannius experiment (Stannius' ligature) |
| A ligature between the sinus venosus and auricle of the frog’s heart. |
| Stannius' ligature |
| A ligature between the sinus venosus and auricle of the frog’s heart. |
| Starling's law of the heart (Frank-Starling law of the heart) |
| The fundamental principle of cardiac behaviour which states that the force of contraction of the cardiac muscle is proportional to its initial length. |
| Starling's mechanism |
| This term is used to differentiate ventricular equilibration from the general application of the Frank-Starling law to venous return.
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| Steno-Fallot tetralogy (Fallot's tetralogy) |
| A congenital condition characterized by stenosis of the pulmonal artery, defect in the interventricular septum, dextroposition of the aorta, and hypertrophy of the right ventricle. |
| Still's murmur |
| Early systolic murmur heard near the left sternal edge in children and young adolescents. |
| Stokes' syndrome (Adams-Stokes syndrome (Robert Adams)) |
| A syncope triggered by heart arrythmia. |
| Stokes-Adams attacks (Robert Adams) (Adams-Stokes syndrome (Robert Adams)) |
| A syncope triggered by heart arrythmia. |
| Stokes-Adams syncope (Robert Adams) (Adams-Stokes syndrome (Robert Adams)) |
| A syncope triggered by heart arrythmia. |
| Stokes-Adams syndrome (Robert Adams) (Adams-Stokes syndrome (Robert Adams)) |
| A syncope triggered by heart arrythmia. |
| Taussig's syndrome |
| A congenital malformation of the heart which is a variant of the Taussig-Bing syndrome.
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| Taussig-Bing anomaly (Taussig-Bing syndrome) |
| A rare congenital deformity of the heart in which the aorta arises from the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery arises from both ventricles, in association with a large ventricular septal defect. |
| Taussig-Bing complex (Taussig-Bing syndrome) |
| A rare congenital deformity of the heart in which the aorta arises from the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery arises from both ventricles, in association with a large ventricular septal defect. |
| Taussig-Bing disease (Taussig-Bing syndrome) |
| A rare congenital deformity of the heart in which the aorta arises from the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery arises from both ventricles, in association with a large ventricular septal defect. |
| Taussig-Bing heart (Taussig-Bing syndrome) |
| A rare congenital deformity of the heart in which the aorta arises from the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery arises from both ventricles, in association with a large ventricular septal defect. |
| Taussig-Bing syndrome |
| A rare congenital deformity of the heart in which the aorta arises from the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery arises from both ventricles, in association with a large ventricular septal defect. |
| Taussig-Bing-Pernkopf syndrome (Taussig-Bing syndrome) |
| A rare congenital deformity of the heart in which the aorta arises from the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery arises from both ventricles, in association with a large ventricular septal defect. |
| Taussig-Snellen-Albers syndrome |
| A no longer commonly used term for congenital anomalous drainage of the pulmonary vein into the inferior vena cava or into the left innominate vein, associated with septal defect. |
| Tawara's node |
| The atrioventricular node which is the beginning of the auricular-ventricular bundle of His. |
| Tawara’s bundle (Tawara's node) |
| The atrioventricular node which is the beginning of the auricular-ventricular bundle of His. |
| Todaro's tendon |
| A tendon in the right atrium of the heart. |
| Von Rokitansky's syndrome |
| Congenital heart defect with second sound accentuated at left of sternum. |
| Ward-Romano syndrome (Romano-Ward syndrome) |
| Prolongation of Q-T interval on the electrocardiogram, usually in association with syncope, ventricular tachyarrythmia, and sudden death. |
| Wenckebach's block (Wenckebach's phenomenon) |
| A sequence of cardiac cycles in the electrocardiogram. |
| Wenckebach's bundle |
| The median bundle of the conductive system of the heart leading to the atrioventricular node (Tawara's node). |
| Wenckebach's heart |
| A heart which is located in the middle line of the thorax (mesocardia) and smaller than normal.
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| Wenckebach's period (Wenckebach's phenomenon) |
| A sequence of cardiac cycles in the electrocardiogram. |
| Wenckebach's phenomenon |
| A sequence of cardiac cycles in the electrocardiogram. |
| Wenckebach's phenomenon (Mobitz I) (Mobitz' block type I and II) |
| Atrioventricular block of first and second degree. |
| Wenckebach's sign |
| Lacking eversion of the lower part of the left curvature during inspiration, seen in concretio pericardii with pronounced adherences to the mediastinum.
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| Wenckebach’s cycle (Wenckebach's phenomenon) |
| A sequence of cardiac cycles in the electrocardiogram. |
| Wenckebach’s second degree AV-Block (Wenckebach's phenomenon) |
| A sequence of cardiac cycles in the electrocardiogram. |
| Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (Louis Wolff) |
| A cardiac pre-excitation syndrome in which normal sinoatrial impulses are conducted to the ventricles both by way of the atrioventricular node and by an abnormal pathway. |
| Yentl's syndrome |
| The phenomenon that women are treated less optimal in the management of coronary heart disease than men. |
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