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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
==Epidemiology and Demographics== | |||
* Somewhere between 0.1 and 3 per 1000 EKGs. | * Somewhere between 0.1 and 3 per 1000 EKGs. | ||
* May be underdiagnosed given the presence of left sided APs which may be silent during NSR. | * May be underdiagnosed given the presence of left sided APs which may be silent during NSR. |
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor-In-Chief: Cafer Zorkun, M.D., Ph.D. [2]
Overview
Epidemiology and Demographics
- Somewhere between 0.1 and 3 per 1000 EKGs.
- May be underdiagnosed given the presence of left sided APs which may be silent during NSR.
- The incidence of tachyarrhythmias in patients with WPW has been estimated to be somewhere between 12% and 80%.
- WPW may be the most prevalent cause of paroxysmal regular supraventricular tachycardia One series found that 57% of patients c psvt were subsequently found to have WPW syndrome on the resting NSR EKG. If the attack occurs before the age of 21, then 73% of the patients had WPW. In patients > 21 years old, then WPW syndrome was found in 48% of patients with PSVT. (Wellens et al 1981).