Historical aspects of the development of the theory of ventricular preexcitation

The paper conducts a review of the literature on the problem of cognition of the nature of the syndrome of preexcitation of the ventricles. Despite the data of early publications, supporting the theory of bypass as a substrate of preexcitation, disputes and searches for the nature of this clinical syndrome continued until 1970, until surgical procedures and the first electrophysiological studies confirmed the “bypass” of the normal conducting system. Article describes the chronology of events related to the understanding of the syndrome, which bears the name Wolff-Parkinson-White.