Robbert de Winter

Robbert Jan de Winter (born on August 23, 1958) is a Dutch cardiologist who along with Niels Verouden, Arthur Wilde, and Hein J.J. Wellens described the namesake De Winter syndrome, a rare presentation of myocardial infarction of the left anterior descending artery (LAD) without obvious ST segment elevation, found in 2% of LAD occlusions.[1][2] De Winter is currently a professor of clinical cardiology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Amsterdam.[3]

References

  1. ^ de Winter, Robbert J; Verouden, Nick J W; Wellens, Hein J J; Willems, Fons G (November 6, 2008). "A new ECG sign of proximal LAD occlusion". New England Journal of Medicine. 359 (19): 2071–2073. doi:10.1056/NEJMc0804737. PMID 18987368.
  2. ^ "De Winter's T waves - WikEM". wikem.org. Archived from the original on 2021-05-07. Retrieved 2022-07-28.
  3. ^ Zhang, Gary; Cadogan, Mike (February 6, 2022). "Robbert de Winter • LITFL • Medical Eponym Library". Life in the Fast Lane (LITFL). Retrieved August 31, 2025.
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