Ebsteins anomaly of the tricuspid valve historical perspective

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor-In-Chief: Cafer Zorkun, M.D., Ph.D. [2]; Claudia P. Hochberg, M.D.; Priyamvada Singh, MBBS [3]

Overview

Ebstein anomaly was named after Wilhelm Ebstein, who in 1866 first described it the heart of a 19 year old patient Joseph Prescher.

In the year 1866, Dr. Ebstein published his first case report named, “A very rare case of tricuspid regurgitation caused by a congenital defect“.^[1]^[2]^[3]
Later in year 1867, Hermann Lebert, a professor of medicine in Breslau, was probably the first to catalogue Ebstein’s seminal publication.
It is only after 1927 that the term “Ebstein’s disease” appeared in the medical literature.
Soloff and his colleagues in the yaer 1951 reported the case of ebstein anomaly in a patient using cardiac catheterization and angiocardiography.

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↑ Robicsek F (June 2013). “Wilhelm Ebstein and the history of surgery for Ebstein’s Disease”. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 61 (4): 286–92. doi:10.1055/s-0032-1304540. PMID 22535676.