Surgical treatment of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
Sealy, W.C.
La Semaine des Hopitaux Organe Fonde Par l'Association d'Enseignement Medical des Hopitaux de Paris 55(1-2): 51-55
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-1777 PMID: 218297 Document Number: 151133
This report relates the surgical experience with 75 patients with WPW. The patients' symptoms were either SVT alone or SVT associated with a pathway with a lethal potential. In some, the Kent pathway caused SVT but did not cause cause pre-excitation. In others, multiple pathways were found. Success has been achieved in 35 of the last 36 patients with freewall pathways treated by surgery. Problems still remain with the posterior septal group. The indications for operation have been broadened to include all patients with significant symptoms.