Longitudinal Clinical and Electrophysiological Assessment of Patients With Symptomatic Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome and Atrioventricular Node Reentrant Tachycardia

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Background Functional changes of the accessory AV pathways and dual AV node pathways are very important for patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome or AV node reentrant tachycardia who refuse to receive long-term medication or radiofrequency catheter ablation. However, no studies of serial clinical and electrophysiological characteristics in these patients have been performed. Methods and Results One hundred thirteen patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome or AV node reentrant tachycardia were included in this study. The first and second follow-up electrophysiological studies were performed in years 5 and 10 after the baseline study, respectively. Conduction properties of the accessory pathways became poor over time. After a mean follow-up period of 9±1 years, antegrade ventricular preexcitation and retrograde accessory pathway conduction disappeared in 22.5% and 7.8% (P<.01), respectively; dual AV node pathway physiology persisted and retrograde fast pathway disappeared in 10.8% of the patients...

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