Clinical Approaches to Tachyarrhythmias, The Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome

Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome (WPW) is recognized as an abnormality of cardiac rhythm that manifests as supraventricular tachycardia. Few practitioners today appreciate how much the development of clinical cardiac electrophysiology owes to Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome. In the early 1960s, it became the test bed for electrophysiological theory and new therapies. Surgical electrophysiological techniques were developed, the pathways were severed, and the patient was often left with an entirely normal heart. This was an important first in modern cardiology - a complete cure.

The aim of the Clinical Approaches to Tachyarryhthmias series is to update the physician, cardiologist, and all those responsible for the the care of patients with cardiac arrhythmias. In this volume, the authors unfold the story of WPW, its precise diagnosis by use of electrocardiography, its successful management and its near extinction in parts of the world reached by modern medical technology, and the remaining challenge it represents in pediatric medicine and in other parts of the globe.

Authors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgment

Historical Perspective

Nomenclature and Definitions

Anatomic Studies

Clinical Presentation

Electrophysiologic Assessment

Arrhythmia Mechanisms

Variants of Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome

Therapy

Summary

Index

Carlos A. Morillo is the editor of Clinical Approaches to Tachyarrhythmias, Volume 6, The Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, published by Wiley.

George J. Klein is the editor of Clinical Approaches to Tachyarrhythmias, Volume 6, The Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, published by Wiley.

Raymond Yee is the editor of Clinical Approaches to Tachyarrhythmias, Volume 6, The Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, published by Wiley.

Gerard M. Guiraudon is the editor of Clinical Approaches to Tachyarrhythmias, Volume 6, The Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, published by Wiley.

Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome (WPW) is recognized as an abnormality of cardiac rhythm that manifests as supraventricular tachycardia. Few practitioners today appreciate how much the development of clinical cardiac electrophysiology owes to Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome. In the early 1960s, it became the test bed for electrophysiological theory and new therapies. Surgical electrophysiological techniques were developed, the pathways were severed, and the patient was often left with an entirely normal heart. This was an important first in modern cardiology - a complete cure.

The aim of the Clinical Approaches to Tachyarryhthmias series is to update the physician, cardiologist, and all those responsible for the the care of patients with cardiac arrhythmias. In this volume, the authors unfold the story of WPW, its precise diagnosis by use of electrocardiography, its successful management and its near extinction in parts of the world reached by modern medical technology, and the remaining challenge it represents in pediatric medicine and in other parts of the globe.