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EUGENE LEPESCHKIN, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1955;96(5):600-617.

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The U wave has in the past received but little attention in clinical electrocardiography, as its significance was not clear. However, during the last few years methods have been developed which allow electrocardiographic leads to be taken directly from the inside of the heart muscle cell and thus make it possible to obtain new information concerning the significance of the U wave and the electrochemical processes responsible for it. On the other hand, an increasing number of reports is appearing in which changes of the U wave are found to be the chief clue leading toward the correct clinical diagnosis. Furthermore, the study of the U waves may furnish important information concerning the genesis of ventricular arrhythmias.

I first became interested in the U wave and the after-potentials responsible for it almost exactly 20 years ago, when, as a student, I watched the experiments of Drs. C. J. Rothberger and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Burlington, Vt.

From the Division of Experimental Medicine, University of Vermont College of Medicine, and the Bishop DeGoesbriand Hospital; Associate Professor of Experimental Medicine, University of Vermont College of Medicine; Chief Cardiographer, Bishop DeGoesbriand Hospital; Established Investigator of the American Heart Association.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 30, 1955.

Read in the Symposium on Electrocardiography and Vectorcardiography before the Section on Experimental Medicine and Therapeutics at the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, Atlantic City, June 7, 1955.

This investigation was aided by the Grant H-1486 of the National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, United States Public Health Service. This work was done during the tenure of an Established Investigatorship of the American Heart Association.

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