Lewis A. Conner: Cornell's Osler.

Lewis Atterbury Conner: appreciation and bibliography.

Lewis Atterbury Conner, one of the founding group of the American Heart Association in 1924 and its first president in 1924 to 1925, is honored by the Lewis Conner Memorial Lecture at the annual American Heart Association Scientific Sessions. Conner was born in New Albany, Ind, and received the degree of bachelor of philosophy from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University in 1887. He ...

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Combined QT interval and voltage criteria improve left ventricular hypertrophy detection in resistant hypertension.

QT interval parameters have been associated with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in hypertensive patients. The aim of this study is to assess this relationship in resistant hypertension and, in particular, to evaluate whether any QT interval parameter could provide additive information for LVH beyond that obtained from the best electrocardiographic voltage criterion. In a cross-sectional stu...

Essays in Honour of Michael Bliss

Thus reads the introduction to Figuring the Social, a collection of essays published by the University of Toronto Press in honour of Canadian historian Michael Bliss. This anthology, edited by E.A. Heaman, Alison Li and Shelley McKellar, consists of dissertations written by students and colleagues of Bliss, who has produced notable works such as The Discovery of Insulin, Plague: A Story of Smal...

Lewis A. Conner Memorial Lecture. The cardiac catheter and the American Heart Association.

THIS YEAR we are met not only for the 46th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association but also to celebrate its 25th year as a national voluntary health agency. The Association came into being in 1922, and Lewis A. Conner of New York was elected the first President. Also, he was the first editor of the American Heart Journal which the Association began in 1926. I did not have ...