Key result
Historical review summarizes the achievements and controversies of cardiac conduction system discoverers.
Why the study?
A comprehensive summary of the factors enabling the discovery of the cardiac conduction system was previously lacking.
Provides a historical overview of the discovery of the cardiac conduction system and the biographies of its key discoverers.
Historical review contextualizes conduction system pioneers; leaves open integration into modern curricula or research training.
This report presents the first comprehensive summary of the factors enabling the discovery of the cardiac conduction system (CCS). Biographical highlights and achievements of the CCS canonical discoverers, hypotheses concerning mechanisms underlying sinus node (SAN) automaticity, use of eponyms to denominate a discovery, famous controversies, possible reproachable behavior (e.g., intellectual support for eugenics in post-World War I Germany) by two of the discoverers, and examples of historical mentor-pupil relationships are discussed.
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Cavero et al. (2022) conducted a review in Cardiac conduction system discovery. This historical review summarizes the biographical highlights, achievements, and controversies surrounding the canonical discoverers of the mammalian cardiac conduction system.
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