Laënnec’s cirrhosis is a progressive liver disease that poses significant health risks. While there is no cure for cirrhosis, there are treatment and management options. Learn more.

In a period of two and a half years from January, 1958, to July, 1960, 5 of 101 (5 per cent) patients with portal cirrhosis and ascites were admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital because of ...

Laënnec’s cirrhosis is a term used to describe cirrhosis that has features typical of the condition related to heavy and chronic alcohol consumption.

Dr Laennec's importance to modern medicine was guaranteed by his invention of the very first stethoscope in 1816. Here are five things you (probably) didn't know about him : 1.

The French physician is celebrated in a Google Doodle marking what would have been his 235th birthday. René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec was born on February 17, 1781, in Quimper, France.