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Louis Wolff
American cardiologist, born 1898, Boston; died June 28, 1972.
Associated eponyms:
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (Louis Wolff)
A cardiac pre-excitation syndrome in which normal sinoatrial impulses are conducted to the ventricles both by way of the atrioventricular node and by an abnormal pathway.
Biography:
Louis Wolff qualified in medicine at Harvard in 1922. He spent his internship at the Massachusetts General Hospital and subsequently specialised in cardiology. He was a visiting physician and chief of the electrocardiographic laboratory at the Beth Israel Hospital.
Obituary in Journal of the American Medical Association, Chicago, 1972, 220: 1755.
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