Stokes-Adams Disease
- 4 April 1957
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 256 (14) , 643-650
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195704042561405
Abstract
STOKES–ADAMS disease was first reported in the eighteenth century by various observers, the order of priority, so far as is known, having been Gerbezius, of Laibach (1719), Morgagni, of Padua (1761), Spens, of Edinburgh (1793), Adams, of Dublin (1827), Burnett, of Chichester (1827), and Stokes, of Dublin (1846). Fortunately, these reports are all reprinted in English in one source of reference.1 It was Huchard2 who first proposed the phrase Stokes–Adams disease. Stokes especially deserves the honor, since his description was particularly complete and accordingly called attention to the subject. Adam's claim to fame is less secure, since at the time . . .Keywords
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- THE STOKES‐ADAMS SYNDROME: ITS RELATIONSHIP TO AURICULO‐VENTRICULAR DISSOCIATION AND OTHER ALLIED CONDITIONSThe Medical Journal of Australia, 1929