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Something Old, Something New—Computed Tomography Studies of the Cardiovascular System in Ancient Egyptian Mummies

Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: Traveling home to California after an international cardiology congress a few years ago, Dr Gregory Thomas stopped in Cairo to visit Dr Adel Allam, an Egyptian cardiologist and nuclear cardiology expert. Dr Allam took Dr Thomas to see the mummies exhibited at the world-famous Egyptian National Museum in downtown Cairo. While there, the two cardiologists took special note of an inscription on one of the glass cases, which announced that the mummy on display, King Menephtah, had suffered from atherosclerosis.
DOI: 10.15420/ahhj.2010.8.1.10
Authors: Adel H Allam, Abdelhalium Nureldin, Gomma Adelmaksoub, Ibrahem Badr, Hany Abdel Amer, Muhamed Al-Tohamy Soliman, Gregory S Thomas, Randall C Thompson, Michael I Miyamoto, Ian G Thomas, Adam Thompson, Samuel Wann
Institution: Al-Azhar University
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: Siemens
OpenAlex ID: W2334420068
FWCI: 5.282
Cites: 10
Cited by: 12
Related to: 10