March 1, 2002

Risk of Sudden Death After Successful Accessory Atrioventricular Pathway Ablation in Resuscitated Patients with Wolff‐Parkinson‐White Syndrome

Structured PICO

Does successful accessory pathway ablation prevent cardiac arrest recurrences in resuscitated patients with WPW syndrome?

Population

Resuscitated patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome who have normal left ventricular function at echocardiography and no ECG abnormalities suggesting additional electrical disease

Intervention

Successful accessory atrioventricular pathway ablation

Outcome

Cardiac arrest recurrences / sudden deathhard clinical

Successful ablation of accessory pathways in resuscitated WPW patients with normal LV function prevents cardiac arrest recurrence, suggesting ICD placement is generally not indicated.

Abstract

In resuscitated patients with WPW syndrome who have normal left ventricular function at echocardiography and no ECG abnormalities suggesting additional electrical disease, ablation of their overt accessory pathways prevented cardiac arrest recurrences; therefore, ICD placement is generally not indicated.

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Cite This Study

Antz et al. (Fri,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69a5b5e86971bccf1268c8e0 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1540-8167.2002.00231.x

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