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Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome historical perspective
Introduction
Overview
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
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
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.
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