Frank Norman Wilson

Frank Norman Wilson (born November 19, 1890 in Livonia , USA , † September 11, 1952 in Stockbridge , USA) was an American cardiologist . He is the namesake of the Wilson leads of the electrocardiogram (EKG) and the Wilson block , a form of the right bundle branch block .

Life

Wilson was in Livonia at the 19 November 1890 Detroit in the state of Michigan born. After attending high school in Detroit he began in 1907 to study medicine at the University of Michigan , where he 1913 medical doctor ( MD ) doctorate . 1914 married Wilson music student Juel Mahoney and was an assistant in the Department of Internal Medicine of the University by his boss A. Walter Hewlett tasked with there newly acquired string galvanometer ( Cambridge string galvanometer ), one of the first twelve devices in the US, the Explore electrocardiogram.

In 1915 he published his first scientific work in this field, which in 1930 Louis Wolff , John Parkinson and Paul Dudley White retrospectively referred to as the first description of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome .

After his return from the First World War , Wilson went to Washington University in St. Louis , where he wrote his first work on right bundle branch block. In 1920 he returned to the University of Michigan as Associate Professor of Medicine .

Between 1929 and 1940 Wilson u. a. concerned with the development of the chest wall leads, which are still often named after him today ( Wilson leads V ₁ to V ₆ , see EKG leads ) and research work on the right bundle branch block. In 1934 he described the form of the QRS complexes typical of right bundle branch block (see ECG nomenclature ) in three patients and, due to the similarity of the chest wall leads in experimentally generated blockages of the right tawara thigh in dogs, attributed them to a comparable blockage. Due to his work, a distinction was made between the Wilson block and the “classic right bundle branch block ” or Bayley block , especially in Europe for several decades .

literature

Eberhard J. Wormer : Syndromes of cardiology and their creators. Medikon, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-923866-28-3 .

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^ Frank Norman Wilson: A case in which the vagus influenced the form of the ventricular complex of the electrocardiogram. In: Arch Int Med . 16, 1915, pp. 1008-1027.
↑ Louis Wolff, John Parkinson, Paul D. White: Bundle-branch block with short PR interval in healthy young people prone to paroxysmal tachyardia. In: Am. Heart J. 5, 1930, p. 685.
^ Frank N. Wilson, Franklin D. Johnston, Paul S. Barker: Electrocardiograms of an unusual type in right bundle-branch block. In: American Heart Journal. 9, 1934, p. 472, doi : 10.1016 / S0002-8703 (34) 90095-8 .

personal data
SURNAME	Wilson, Frank Norman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American cardiologist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 19, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	Livonia , USA
DATE OF DEATH	September 11, 1952
Place of death	Stockbridge , USA

[1] Frank Norman Wilson: A case in which the vagus influenced the form of the ventricular complex of the electrocardiogram. In: Arch Int Med . 16, 1915, pp. 1008-1027.

[2] Louis Wolff, John Parkinson, Paul D. White: Bundle-branch block with short PR interval in healthy young people prone to paroxysmal tachyardia. In: Am. Heart J. 5, 1930, p. 685.

[3] Frank N. Wilson, Franklin D. Johnston, Paul S. Barker: Electrocardiograms of an unusual type in right bundle-branch block. In: American Heart Journal. 9, 1934, p. 472, doi : 10.1016 / S0002-8703 (34) 90095-8 .