Cardiac polyp

Heart polyp ( Latin Polypus cordis ) was the name of a heart thrombus in earlier times, which forms in the heart after death due to the coagulation of the corpse blood and was understood by the earlier anatomists as a pathological phenomenon.

This was described among others by the Florentine anatomy and pathologist Antonio Benivieni (1443–1502) and Caspar Bauhin (1560–1624). They are of the long and real or true Herzpolyp designated myxoma to distinguish the heart.

literature

• Otto Dornblüth : Dictionary of clinical art expressions. 13./14. Edition. Verlag Veit & Comp., Leipzig 1927. (Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2001, ISBN 3-11-017381-6 )
• Johann Georg Krünitz : Economic encyclopedia or general system of the state, city, house and agriculture. 1773 to 1858, p. 129, online .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Benivieni, Antonio. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 164 f.
2. ^ Inci A. Bowman: Jean-Baptiste Senac and His Treatise on the Heart. In: Texas Heart Institute Journal. 14 (1987), pp. 5-11, PMC 324686 (free full text)
3. ↑ Heinz Schott: The Chronicle of Medicine. Chronik Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-577-14577-3 , p. 103.
4. ^ Kottmeier: Fibrous neoplasm in the heart. (True heart polyp.) In: Virch Arch. , 23, 1862, pp. 434-435, doi: 10.1007 / BF01939273 .
5. ↑ Thomas F. Luscher, Jan Steffel: Cardiovascular system. Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-16717-1 , p. 166. ( limited preview in Google book search)

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