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Anatomic Substrates of the Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome

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A large body of clinical and electrophysiologic data exists concerning the WPW syndrome; in comparison, very few clinicopathologic correlations have been made. An accessory atrio-ventricular (A-V) pathway was first demonstrated in a patient known to have WPW syndrome by Wood, Wolferth and Geckeler in 1943 [1]. Shortly thereafter, in 1944, Ohnell published a three dimensional reconstruction of an accessory A-V pathway [2]. To date approximately forty accessory A-V pathways have been described [3–24], but, unfortunately, ante-mortum studies have often been unavailable.

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Gallagher, J.J., Sealy, W.C., Cox, J.L., Kasell, J.H., German, L.D. (1983). Anatomic Substrates of the Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome. In: Rosenbaum, M.B., Elizari, M.V. (eds) Frontiers of Cardiac Electrophysiology. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6781-6_34

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