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About Woldemar Mobitz
- Woldemar Mobitz (31 May 1889 – 11 April 1951) was a Russian-German physician.
- The forms of second degree AV block are named after him for him.Mobitz was born on May 31, 1889 in St.
- Petersburg, Russia.
- He attended the local high school in Meiningen (Saxony, Germany) from which he graduated in 1908.
- He then studied medicine at the Universities of Freiburg and Munich, where he earned his doctorate in 1914 (“Contributions to Basedow disease”).
- He then worked at the Surgical Hospitals in Berlin and Halle as well as in internal medicine at the University Hospitals of Munich and Freiburg.
- In Munich, Mobitz was promoted to the position of a senior lecturer thanks to his research on heart block.
- In 1928, after a 4-year tenure, he accepted a post in Freiburg as Associate Professor and Chief of Staff of the Clinic of Internal Medicine.
- In 1943, he became Director of the Medical Hospital in Magdeburg-Sudenburg Municipal Hospital until the occupation by the Soviet army in 1945.
- Mobitz’s work was devoted to internal medicine and he was especially interested in cardiology.
- From 1924 to 1928, he published his famous key papers on AV dissociation and heart block.
- In 1924, Mobitz differentiated two types of second degree AV block with the aid of the electrocardiogram and characterized their prognostic significance.
- With type I (Mobitz type I), the PR interval increases gradually until there is a breakdown of AV conduction.
- This form is identical to the previously described type of second-degree AV block by Wenckebach at the end of the nineteenth century.
- With type II block (Mobitz type II), all conducted beats show a constant, typically normal PR interval, and conduction to the ventricles occurs at regular intervals.
- This form is identical to the type of AV block described by Hay in 1906 without the benefit of electrocardiography.
- Mobitz included 2 : 1, 3 : 1 AV block in his type II classification, and indicated the serious nature of type II block and its propensity to Adams-Stokes attacks. The Woldemar-Mobitz-Forschungspreis for works concerning rhythmology is awarded by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fĂĽr Kardiologie.
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