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This historical review chronicles the understanding of ventricular preexcitation (Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome), noting that the theory of an accessory atrioventricular connection was only definitively confirmed by surgical and electrophysiological studies in 1970.
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Disputes and searches for the nature of the ventricular preexcitation syndrome continued until 1970 despite early data supporting the bypass theory, motivating a review of the chronology of events leading to understanding Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
This historical review provides a comprehensive timeline of the discovery and understanding of the anatomical and electrophysiological basis of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
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Confirms bypass tract substrate in preexcitation; leaves open questions on variant mechanisms today.
The paper conducts a review of the literature on the problem of cognition of the nature of the syndrome of preexcitation of the ventricles. Despite the data of early publications, supporting the theory of bypass as a substrate of preexcitation, disputes and searches for the nature of this clinical syndrome continued until 1970, until surgical procedures and the first electrophysiological studies confirmed the “bypass” of the normal conducting system. Article describes the chronology of events related to the understanding of the syndrome, which bears the name Wolff-Parkinson-White.
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Matsonashvili et al. (2021) conducted a review in Ventricular preexcitation syndrome (Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome). This historical review chronicles the understanding of ventricular preexcitation (Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome), noting that the theory of an accessory atrioventricular connection was only definitively confirmed by surgical and electrophysiological studies in 1970.
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