Dr. Sergey P. Botkin's case sheet

Abstract

The article presents and discusses Botkin's case sheet focused on his cardiac disease. Analysis of the clinical symptoms and course of the disease provides an opportunity from the standpoint of modern clinical cardiology to characterize the features of Botkin's disease course at all stages of its cardiological continuum and assess the diagnostic capabilities and managing approach to such patients. The comorbidity of ischemic heart disease and gallstone disease in the case of Dr. Sergey P. Botkin, a Russian general practitioner, pathologist, physiologist, and one of the founders of scientific medicine in Russia, is being discussed.

Keywords

• dr. sergey p. botkin
• dr. nikolai a. belogolovy
• dr. neil i. sokolov
• angina pectoris
• myocardial infarction
• cholelithiasis