Karel Frederik Wenckebach
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)Karel Frederik Wenckebach | |
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Born | March 24, 1864 |
Died | November 11, 1940 |
Nationality | Dutch |
Known for | Wenckebach Phenomenon |
Scientific career | |
Fields | anatomy cardiology |
Institutions | University of Groningen |
Karel Frederik Wenckebach (Dutch: anatomist who was a native of the Hague.
He studied medicine in
Utrecht, and in 1901 become a professor of medicine at the University of Groningen. Later he was a professor at the Universities of Strasbourg (1911–14) and Vienna
(1914–29).
Contributions in cardiology
Wenckebach is primarily remembered for his work in
second degree AV block" and later named the "Wenckebach phenomenon" and reclassified as Mobitz type I block in Mobitz's 1924 paper.[1] A similar phenomenon can also occur in the sinoatrial node where it gives rise to type I second degree SA block
, and this is also known as a Wenckebach block; the two have distinct features on an ECG however.
Wenckebach is credited for describing the median bundle of the
left atrium).[2]
Wenckebach was an early advocate involving the use of quinine for treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.
Family
His father Eduard (1813-1874) has been credited with developing the very first telegraphic communications line in the Netherlands, between Haarlem and Amsterdam. He had two brothers, Henri Johan Eduard (1861-1924), director of the State Mines and later of the Dutch Ironworks in IJmuiden, and Ludwig Willem Reymert (1860-1937), a well-known painter and book illustrator. His son
Oswald
became a sculptor, painter and medallist, most widely known for his war monuments and designing the Dutch coins issued between 1948 and 1981.
Selected writings
- Arythmie als Ausdruck bestimmter Funktionsstörungen des Herzens (1903, Engelse vertaling: (1904)
- Die unregelmässige Herztätigkeit und ihre klinische Bedeutung (1914)
- Herz- und Kreislaufinsufficienz (1931)
References
- PMID 10217465.
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- Mendoza-Davila, Natalia; Varon Joseph (Nov 2008). "Resuscitation great. Karel Wenckebach: the story behind the block". PMID 18692289.