Perioperative medicine & anaesthesia · UKMLA & AKT
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome,
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- WPW is a congenital condition where an accessory pathway (bundle of Kent) bypasses the AV node, causing ventricular pre-excitation and predisposing to re-entrant tachycardias. Prevalence ~1-3/1,000; male:female ~2:1.
- Associated conditions: Ebstein's anomaly (strongest structural association), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), mitral valve prolapse
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