Open AccessWolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
Author(s) -
Melissa Olen,
Sherrie Joy Baysa,
Anthony F. Rossi,
Ronald J. Kanter,
Steven B. Fishberger
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.115.019703
Subject(s) - medicine , miami , ventricular fibrillation , sudden death , atrial fibrillation , cardiology , pediatrics , soil science , environmental science
Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome can be associated with a malignant arrhythmia resulting in sudden death. Symptomatic patients have an estimated risk reported to be ≈0.25% per year, or 3% to 4% over a lifetime.1 In 1979, Klein et al2 reported 31 patients with WPW who had resuscitated ventricular fibrillation. During electrophysiological study, 25 of these patients had induction of atrial fibrillation that conducted rapidly via the accessory pathway. This finding supported the theory that rapid preexcited atrial fibrillation may result in ventricular fibrillation and sudden death. An …
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