SYNDROME OF WOLF-PARKINSON-WHITE

Disease information

SYNDROME OF WOLF-PARKINSON-WHITE

Syndrome of Wolf - Parkinson - White.

A malformation of the electrical apparatus of the heart that produces palpitaciones (taquicardias; the very fast heart vá)

Prognosis.

Great number of patients is controlled with the medication.

The ablation by means of cateterismo of abnormal fibers, possible in 90 % of the cases, is curativa.

Complications.

Taquicardias so fast can induce a shutdown cardiac.

When suffering síncope by the palpitaciones can suffer serious accidents.

Diagnosis and treatment.

Diagnosis.

It is made by means of Electrocardiograma (ECG) in rest (when the heart is not accelerated) in which a form characteristic of outline is detected (the denominated "waves delta")

Treatment.

The treatment will be initially by means of medicines.

If they take place taquicardias very frequently, or the medical treatment does not avoid them, the anomalous fibers through a cateterismo are burned cardiac.

General Measures.

To avoid the leading factors.

Medication.

His doctor will prescribe medicines to him to avoid the palpitaciones.

It does not let take them from blow.

Activity.

Avoid the activities that can trigger an attack to him, as the debilitating sports.

Avoid the activities in which the transitory loss of the conscience (síncope) can be dangerous.

Diet.

Avoid stimulating like drinks with caffein and the tea.

Factors of risk.

Stimulating.

Stress.

Anxiety.

Prevention.

To avoid the risk factors.

Signs and symptoms.

After stimuli very varied like stimulating emotions or (including caffein) the heart goes off, barking very quickly (between 120 and 250 times per minute) which can cause faints, and even stopped cardiac.

Often he is asintomático (it is only appraised in the ECG, without producing taquicardias)

Causes.

The current that causes that the heart is contracted normally goes from the right auricle to the ventricles through a single fiber beam.

In the patients with the WPW syndrome, other ways exist, with which short circuits take place that multiply the frequency of contraction of the heart.

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