Vilém Dušan Lambl (5 December 1824 in Letiny – 12 February 1895) was a physician from Bohemia. He authored his medical publications, which were in German, as Wilhelm Lambl.
Lambl had a keen interest in the field of linguistics, particularly Slavic languages. After earning his degree in medicine from the University of Prague, he traveled extensively in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Dalmatia, and Montenegro, conducting research on South Slavic languages and culture. Following his return to Prague, he worked both at Josef von Löschner's children's hospital and as a lecturer at the University of Prague until 1860, when he accepted a position at Kharkiv University. In 1871, he became a professor at the University of Warsaw.[1]
He is remembered for his description of an intestinal protozoan parasite that was initially discovered by Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), and is a cause of gastroenteritis. Lambl called the protozoan Cercomonas intestinalis. In 1888 the name was changed to Lamblia intestinalis by zoologist Raphael Anatole Émile Blanchard (1819–1900). In 1915 the species was renamed to Giardia lamblia by American zoologist Charles Wardell Stiles (1867–1941) in honor of Lambl and French biologist Alfred Mathieu Giard (1846–1908). Today the illness caused by the parasite is called either "lambliasis" or "giardiasis".
With Löschner, he published "Aus dem Franz Josef-Kinder-Spitale in Prag", Part one: "Beobachtungen und Studien aus dem Gebiete der pathologischen Anatomie und Histologie" (1860),[2][3] ("From the Franz-Josefs-Kinder-Spital in Prague, Observations and studies from the fields of pathological anatomy and histology").
Lambl excrescences, which he described in a publication from 1856, are still important today as an anatomic feature essential to physiologic valvular coaptation; especially in the aortic valve.[clarification needed][4][5]
Eponym named after Lambl
edit- Lambl's excrescences: Small fibrin deposits on the aortic valve.
- Lambl's excrescences: Foot of a gecko guiding valvular coaptation.
References
edit- Vilem Dusan Lambl @ Who Named It
- Lipoldová, Marie (2014). "Giardia and Vilém Dušan Lambl". PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 8 (5): e2686. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0002686. PMC 4014406. PMID 24810153.
- ^ Birk Engmann: Ergänzungsband zum biobibliographischen Lexikon „Nervenärzte“. Deutsch-russische Wissenschaftsbeziehungen im 19. Jahrhundert auf den Gebieten Psychiatrie, Neuropathologie und Neurologie. Disserta, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-95935-538-4.
- ^ Bibliography of Lambl @ Who Named It
- ^ Löschner (Freiherr von), Joseph Wilhelm; Lambl, D. F. (1 January 2012). Aus dem Franz Josef-Kinder-Spitale in Prag. Nabu Press. ASIN 1273503201.
- ^ Amin, Hina; Jilani, Mohammad Hashim; Villarreal, Daniel (2019-12-17). "Lambl's Excrescences: An Enigma of Modern Diagnostic Cardiology". Cureus. 11 (12): e6407. doi:10.7759/cureus.6407. ISSN 2168-8184. PMC 6968828. PMID 31970037.
- ^ Kondamareddy, Divya; Kerndt, Connor C.; Masood, Wajeed (2022), "Lambls Excrescences", StatPearls, Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing, PMID 29939563, retrieved 2022-10-26