Karel Frederik Wenckebach

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Karel Frederik Wenckebach
Karel Frederik Wenckebach
BornMarch 24, 1864
DiedNovember 11, 1940
NationalityDutch
Known for Wenckebach Phenomenon
Scientific career
Fieldsanatomy
cardiology
InstitutionsUniversity 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.

A-V block
manifest in the form of 5:4 Wenckebach periods; R-P/P-R reciprocity.

Wenckebach is credited for describing the median bundle of the

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)

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