The syndrome of Wolff-Parkinson-White

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THE SYNDROME OF WOLFF-PARKINSON-WHITE

- Definition
- The Symptoms
- How to make the diagnosis?
- Treatment

DEFINITION

This illness is defined as the occurrence of an intermittent tachycardia, caused by an abnormality of the conduction of the nervous impulse in the heart.

It is a frequent illness, which lately benefited from the therapeutic progresses. Indeed, its radical treatment now rests on the ablation of the pathological area localized in the heart and responsible for the occurrence of this tachycardia.

Very frequently, the syndrome of Wolff-Parkinson-White does not reveal any other cardiac illness.

File last reviewed on dec 18, 2011

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