THE SCHOLARSHIP OF HEINRICH STERN,OF PHYSICIANS AND OSLER'S LESSER-KNOWN CONTEMPORARY: A REVIEW FOUNDER OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE.

Heinrich Stern, a German immigrant, attended medical school in the United States, established a practice in Manhattan, and became a prominent clinician, an influential scholar, a medical journal founder and editor, and the founder of a number of medical organizations, including the American College of Physicians. He was said to be a prolific author, but there has been no prior systematic review of his publications. All known primary publications are reviewed and placed in the context of the medical milieu of his time.

Worsening of nose bleeding heralds high cardiac output state in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia.

Background: Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia is characterized by arteriovenous malformations or telangiectasias in multiple organs. Nose bleeding is the most common manifestation of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia and can be debilitating. Cardiac involvement in the form of high-output cardiac failure is a poorly studied complication of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia.