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Modification of Arruda's Accessory Pathway Localization Method to Improve the Performance of WPW Syndrome Interventions
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Author(s): Sándor Miklós Szilágyi (Hungarian Science University of Transylvania, Romania), László Szilágyi (Hungarian Science University of Transylvania, Romania), Constantin T. Luca (University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania), Dragos Cozma (University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania), Gabriel Ivanica (University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania)and Zoltán Benyó (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 10
Source title:
Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Nilmini Wickramasinghe (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)and Eliezer Geisler (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch114
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Abstract
The Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome is characterized by an accessory pathway (by-pass tract) between the atria and ventricles that conducts parallel with the atrioventricular (AV) node-His bundle, but faster (Wolff, Parkinson, & White, 1930; Yee, Klein, & Guiraudon, 1995). An accessory AV connection can conduct in both directions. The presence of these bypass tracts may predispose to atria-ventricular reentrant tachycardia. Moreover, in the setting of atrial fibrillation, the WPW syndrome may cause a catastrophically rapid ventricular response with degeneration to ventricular fibrillation (VF).
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