Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome historical perspective

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor-In-Chief: Sara Zand, M.D.[2] Cafer Zorkun, M.D., Ph.D. [3]

Overview

Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome is named after the cardiologists Louis Wolff, John Parkinson, and Paul Dudley White who gave a definitive description of the conduction disorder of the heart in 1930. The term Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome was coined in 1940. Bundle of Kent was first discovered by Albert Frank Stanley Kent, a British physiologist following finding the lateral branch in the atrioventricular groove of the monkey heart.

Historical Perspective

Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome was first discovered by frank Norman Wilson, an American cardiologist in 1915, following investigation about influence of vague on ventricular complex .^[1]
In 1930, the EKG of patients with paroxysmal tachycardia, bundle branch block pattern and short PR interval was described as Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome by Paul Dudley White, and Louis Wolff.^[2]
Bundle of Kent was first discovered by Albert Frank Stanley Kent, a British physiologist following finding the lateral branch in the atrioventricular groove of the monkey heart.^[3]^[4]

References

↑ Wilson FN (1915). (abstract) “A case in which the vagus influenced the form of the ventricular complex of the electrocardiogram” Check |url= value (help). Archives of Internal Medicine. 16 (6): 1008–27. doi:10.1001/archinte.1915.00080060120009.
↑ L. Wolff, J. Parkinson, P. D. White. Bundle-branch block with short P-R interval in healthy young people prone to paroxysmal tachycardia. American Heart Journal, St. Louis, 1930, 5: 685.
↑ Kent AFS (1893). “Researches on the structure and function of the mammalian heart”. Journal of Physiology. 14 (4–5): 233–54. PMC 1514401. PMID 16992052.
↑ Kent AFS (1914). “A conducting path between the right auricle and the external wall of the right ventricle in the heart of the mammal”. Journal of Physiology. 48: 57.

Overview