SHORT PR INTERVAL ASSOCIATED WITH A PROLONGED QRS COMPLEX
- 1 March 1942
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1908)
- Vol. 69 (3) , 437-445
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1942.00200150070006
Abstract
Twelve years ago Wolff, Parkinson and White1described a syndrome appearing in healthy young people subject to attacks of paroxysmal tachycardia. Electrocardiograms taken during the intervals between attacks showed wide QRS complexes with short PR intervals. Isolated cases had been previously reported by Wilson,2Wedd3and Hamburger,4but the complete picture had not been appreciated. This syndrome, though uncommon, is now well known,5and it is recognized that the bizarre electrocardiograms do not necessarily represent cardiac damage. It occurs in all age groups with the exception that it has not yet been recognized in a newborn infant. It is more common in males, and most persons have attacks of paroxysmal tachycardia of either supraventricular or ventricular origin. In some of the cases reported atropine or exercise has caused the electrocardiographic pattern to return to a normal configuration, but this is not an invariable finding. AThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: