Robert Hegglin

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Robert Marquard Hegglin (born May 5, 1907 in Schönbrunn near Zug , † November 22, 1969 in Zurich ) was a Swiss internist and cardiologist .

family

He was a son of the doctor Carl Hegglin and his wife Mathilde Durrer. The grandfather was also a doctor. Politicians and historians were also among the ancestors.

education and profession

After graduating from the Zug Cantonal School, Hegglin studied medicine at the Universities of Geneva , Munich , Berlin , Paris and Zurich . This was followed by further training at the Pathological Institute in St. Gallen and at the Medical University Clinic in Zurich, where Otto Naegeli and Wilhelm Löffler were his teachers.

During the Zurich assistant years he mainly dealt with cardiological problems. He received his doctorate in 1934. From 1938 to 1945 he worked as a senior physician at the Medical University Clinic and dealt with infectious diseases and hematology . In 1943, Hegglin submitted his habilitation thesis, received the Venia legendi for internal medicine in 1944 and held lectures on the differential diagnosis of internal diseases as a private lecturer .

From 1947 he worked in Zurich as a specialist in internal medicine and cardiology . He took over the position of chief physician at the Medical Clinic of the St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital in 1954, and three years later he was appointed professor at the Zurich Polyclinic (1957).

power

Hegglin's clinical and scientific work focused on the areas of respiratory infections , electrocardiography , hematology and cardiology. His main work is the differential diagnosis of internal diseases , which (with W. Siegenthaler as editor) became the standard work for practical medical work, experienced 16 editions and appeared in numerous foreign-language editions.

In addition, he was co-editor of the journal Cardiologia , a publication of the Swiss Cardiological Society.

Holocaust testimony

During the Second World War, Hegglin was a representative of the Swiss Red Cross from June to September 1942 in Riga, Daugavpils and Pskow and reported in his diary:

"" One more question must be touched on and discussed, which is extremely meticulous, but must not be missing in an objective report: the Jewish question. According to the reports I have received from German soldiers, officers and Latvians, there can be no doubt about it. that almost 100,000 Jews have been shot in the vicinity of Riga since the German occupation, the figures vary between 40,000 and 90,000 Jews made here, but apparently mainly Jews from the Reich are brought here and shot here. ""

- Robert Hegglin

Hegglin eponyms

  • Hegglin syndrome Syndrome of energetic-dynamic heart failure as a metabolic disorder of the heart muscle that influences the process of muscle fiber contraction. The ECG shows a prolonged QT interval with a relative shortening of the mechanical systole duration as an expression of an excitation regression disorder . Clinically, the syndrome can only be recognized with simultaneous registration of the ECG and heart sound; it is present in the ECG when the second heart sound occurs more than 0.02 seconds before the end of the T wave.
  • Hegglin-Holzmann formula As a post-doctoral thesis, Hegglin published a summarizing work on the subject of the extended QT time in the electrocardiogram in 1943, in which he assessed the importance of the QT duration from a clinical point of view. A prerequisite for determining a pathological QT duration is the determination of the physiological duration of ventricular excitation.
  • Hegglin quotient The quotient value is used for orienting, quantitative calculation of a left-right shunt from the arterial indicator dilution curve.
  • Hegglin sign prematurely onset, thus apparently disappearing, second heart sound ("woodpecker beat phenomenon"), for example in heart failure.
  • Hegglin-Maier heat resistance test Diagnostics of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (Marchiafava-Micheli type), an acquired hemolytic anemia with a good prognosis.
  • Fanconi-Hegglin syndrome by Guido Fanconi (1892–1979) 1936 and Hegglin 1941 described pseudoluetic, subacute hilifugal bronchopneumonia of viral origin with Wassermann-positive lung infiltration .
  • May-Hegglin anomaly described by May 1909 and Hegglin 1945. It is a polyphyle development disorder, a family panmyelopathy with maturation disorders of polymorphonuclear leukocytes and platelet function , a rare constitutional anomaly with autosomal - dominant inheritance by "giant platelets" with thrombocytopenia can be distinguished from other thrombocytopenia. The prognosis is good.

Works

  • Chemotherapy of pneumonia . 1942
  • The prolonged QT duration on the electrocardiogram . In: Archives for Circulatory Research 13 (1943) 171
  • The polyphylic maturation disorder . 1945
  • L'insuffisance énergétodynamique . Cardiologia 15 (1949) 65
  • Differential diagnosis of internal diseases (edited by W. Siegenthaler). 1952
  • Circulatory diagnostics with the dye dilution method . Stuttgart 1962

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hegglin diary
  2. ↑ Richard May: Leukocyte Inclusions. In: Dtsch. Arch. Klin. Med. 96/1909, pp. 1-6.
  3. ^ Robert Hegglin: Simultaneous constitutional changes in neutrophils and thrombocytes. In: Helv. Med. Acta 12/1945, pp. 439-40.

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personal data
SURNAME Hegglin, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hegglin, Robert Marquard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss internist and cardiologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönbrunn near Zug
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1969
Place of death Zurich