Leo schamroth biography

Professor Schamroth Published over papers and eight textbooks, mostly concerned with cardiology and electrocardiography.

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His book An Introduction to Electrocardiography , ran to eight editions, the last of which was published posthumously and edited by his son, Dr Colin Schamroth. Schamroth was a superb teacher. As a lecturer he combined unrivalled clarity with showmanship, and held his audiences spellbound. His ability to wring insights from the most ordinary-appearing ECG, by painstaking analysis, that is his enduring legacy.

Schamroth is eponymously remembered the his description of his own intermittent clubbing as Schamroth sign and the Schamroth window.

Schamroth sign

Schamroth suffered from rheumatic valve disease and developed infective endocarditis. In , after watching his own clubbing come and go during one such episode of endocarditis, Schamroth suggested that clinicians place the terminal phalanges of similar fingers back to back especially ring fingers and look for a small diamond-shaped window outlined by the bases of nail beds and nails.

I found that the assessment of my own clubbing was facilitated by the simple expediency of placing together the dorsal surfaces of the terminal phalanges of similar fingers — particularly the ring fingers. Another aspect of clubbing which becomes evident from this manoeuvre is the formation of a prominent distal angle between the ends of the nails.

This angle is normally minimal, virtually non-existent, and does not extend more than half-way up the nail bed Fig. Clubbing manifests with an abnormally wide and deep angle which extends more than half-way up the finger nails arrow in Fig. Emergency physician, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. Passion for rugby; medical history; medical education; and asynchronous learning FOAMed evangelist.

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