Karel Wenckebach: The story behind the block

Mendoza-Davila, Natalia; Varon, Joseph

doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2008.05.015

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“…49 This is now called Wenckebach block [Mobitz (1889-1951 type I] or the Wenckebach phenomenon. 44,50 Acierno's history 46 mentions that WT Ritchie (1873-1945) wrote in the introduction to his book Auricular Flutter 41 published in 1914 that Wenckebach's '. .…”

Section: Julius Wagner-jaureggmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…49 This is now called Wenckebach block [Mobitz (1889–1951) type I] or the Wenckebach phenomenon. 44,50 Acierno’s history 46 mentions that WT Ritchie (1873–1945) wrote in the introduction to his book Auricular Flutter 41 published in 1914 that Wenckebach’s ‘… critical analysis of the sphygmographic tracings demonstrated that each form of the cardiac irregularity represented a disorder of one or other of the functional activities of the heart, namely, of stimulus production, excitation, contractility, and conductivity’. This interpretation of the cardiac arrhythmias had been adopted and amplified by James Mackenzie in 1908 in his book Diseases of the Heart .…”

Section: Karel Frederik Wenckebachmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The pre-Anschluss Vienna School of Medicine – the physicians: Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857–1940) and Karel Wenckebach (1864–1940)

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2014

J Med Biogr

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Three physicians are discussed. Sigmund Freud, probably the best-known member of the Vienna School of Medicine, was the path-breaking pioneer in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Julius Wagner-Jauregg was a psychiatrist who discovered the link between iodine deficiency and goitre and also developed malaria therapy to treat progressive paralysis caused by syphilis for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize. Karel Wenckebach, the pioneering Dutch cardiologist, is best known for the Wenckebach block. After the Anschluss, fate dealt very different hands to these three physicians. Freud fled to London where he soon died. Wagner-Jauregg, who had some pan-Germanic sympathies as well as views on eugenics, left a controversial legacy. The Dutch cardiologist Wenckebach died in Vienna shortly after his homeland had been invaded in 1940 by that of his hosts.

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Section: Julius Wagner-jaureggmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Karel Frederik Wenckebachmentioning

confidence: 99%