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ItalianCNA trial
ItalianCNA (NCT05751330) is a GIMSI-sponsored multicenter Italian trial of right atrial cardioneuroablation for asystolic reflex syncope documented by implantable loop recorder; 28 patients showed asystole burden falling from 0.89 to 0.11 episodes per month.
Iterative reconstruction
Iterative reconstruction is a medical imaging method that repeatedly refines an image estimate against measured data, cutting noise and CT radiation dose; it became routine in CT around 2008.
Ivan Raimi
Ivan Mitchell Raimi (born 1956) is an American emergency medicine physician and screenwriter, older brother of Sam and Ted Raimi, co-writer of Darkman, Army of Darkness, Spider-Man 3, and Drag Me to Hell.
Ivor Lewis esophagectomy
Ivor Lewis esophagectomy is a two-stage operation for esophageal cancer that removes the esophagus through the abdomen and right chest, joining the stomach to it inside the chest.
J. Marion Sims
J. Marion Sims (1813–1883), American surgeon called the father of modern gynecology, developed vesicovaginal fistula repair, the Sims speculum and position, and founded New York's Woman's Hospital, but experimented without anesthesia on enslaved women, making his legacy deeply contested.
J. Richardson Consultants
J. Richardson Consultants was the Houston consulting firm of Joseph G. Richardson (1923–2007), an American petroleum reservoir engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
J. Warren Perry
J. Warren Perry (1921–2010) was an American health professions educator and psychologist who served as founding dean of the School of Health Related Professions at the University at Buffalo.
Jacob Moritz Blumberg
Jacob Moritz Blumberg (1873–1955) was a German surgeon and gynecologist, born in Posen and trained at Breslau, whose name is attached to Blumberg's sign, rebound tenderness used in diagnosing appendicitis.
Jadad scale
The Jadad scale, also known as the Oxford quality scoring system, is a five-point scale for judging the quality of randomized controlled trial reports, described by Alejandro R. Jadad in 1996.
James Andrews (physician)
James R. Andrews (born 1942) is a retired American orthopedic surgeon, Tommy John surgery specialist, and sports medicine pioneer who co-founded ASMI and the Andrews Institute and treated stars like Michael Jordan and Roger Clemens.
James Barry (surgeon)
James Barry, born Margaret Ann Bulkley, was a British Army surgeon who served 46 years across the Empire and in 1826 performed one of the first successful caesarean sections.
James G. Nuckolls
James G. Nuckolls, known as James Garland Nuckolls, was an American general internist from Galax, Virginia, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1992.
James Hunter Thrall
James Hunter Thrall is an American radiologist who served as Radiologist-in-Chief at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1988 to 2013, led the American College of Radiology, and authored over 400 publications.
James M. Dunning
James M. Dunning, or James Morse Dunning, was an American dental public health specialist and dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine from 1947 to 1952.
James MacDowell Markert
James MacDowell Markert is an American neurosurgeon and inaugural chair of neurosurgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022.
James Rutherford Morison
James Rutherford Morison (1853–1939) was a British surgeon of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and professor of surgery at Durham who described the peritoneal space known as Morison's pouch.
James W. Haviland
James W. Haviland (1911–2007) was an American internist and medical educator in Seattle who led the creation of the world's first community-supported outpatient kidney dialysis program in 1962.
James William Colbert Jr.
James William Colbert Jr., American physician and medical school dean at Yale, Saint Louis University, and NIH; first Vice President for Academic Affairs of MUSC (1969–1974); father of Stephen Colbert; died in 1974 plane crash.
Jan Garavaglia
Jan C. Garavaglia, 'Dr. G', American forensic pathologist and Chief Medical Examiner of Florida's District Nine (Orange-Osceola) from 2003; starred in Discovery's Dr. G: Medical Examiner; formerly Bexar County, Texas.
Jason A. Burdick
Jason A. Burdick is a bioengineer and Bowman Endowed Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for injectable and granular hydrogels and light-based bioprinting for tissue repair.
Jaw Relation Record
A jaw relation record is a prosthodontic registration of how the upper and lower dental arches relate, used to mount casts on a dental articulator.
Jaw-thrust maneuver
The jaw-thrust maneuver is a manual airway technique that lifts the jaw forward to open an unconscious patient's airway without head tilt, preferred when cervical spine injury is suspected.
Jejunal feeding
Jejunal feeding is enteral nutrition delivered through a tube whose tip lies in the jejunum, used when gastric feeding is not tolerated or complicated by severe reflux.
Jejunoileal Bypass
Jejunoileal bypass (JIB), also called jejuno-ileal or ileojejunal bypass, was the first bariatric operation (1954), joining proximal jejunum to distal ileum; abandoned by 1980 for renal failure, liver failure, and malnutrition.
Jejunostomy
A jejunostomy is a surgically or endoscopically created opening from the abdominal wall into the jejunum, used for long-term enteral feeding when the stomach cannot be used.
Jeremy Greenlee
Jeremy Greenlee is an American neurosurgeon and clinician-scientist at the University of Iowa, known for research on the neural mechanisms of speech and deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease.
Jerris R. Hedges
Jerris R. Hedges is an American emergency physician who served as Dean of the John A. Burns School of Medicine in Hawaii from 2008 to 2023.
Jet ventilation
Jet ventilation, or high-frequency jet ventilation, delivers small gas pulses through a narrow cannula to oxygenate the lungs without a tracheal tube, mainly during airway surgery and bronchoscopy.
Jian-Ping Dai (戴建平)
Jian-Ping Dai (戴建平) was a Chinese radiologist and neurointerventional pioneer who led Beijing Tiantan Hospital from 1993 to 2008 and was elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2012.
Jianan Li
Jianan Li (Li Jian'an) is a Chinese rehabilitation-medicine physician at Nanjing Medical University, elected a Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine in 2014.