title: Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome: long follow-up and an Anglo-American historical note.
abstract: A patient who developed palpitation in 1917 was later found to have the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome and survived to the age of 86, when he died of emphysema. Shortly before he first presented, a report of another patient had been published that can now retrospectively be recognized as containing the first tracings from a case of the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome; its coauthors were a distinguished American cardiologist, Alfred E. Cohn, who had worked with Sir Thomas Lewis, and his British research fellow, Francis R. Fraser.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004739:England; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014481:United States; D014927:Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome / Q000266:history* / Q000473:pathology