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  • Title: Surgical treatment of tachyarrhythmias in patients with both an Ebstein anomaly and a Kent bundle.
    Author: Sealy WC, Gallagher JJ, Pritchett EL, Wallace AG.
    Journal: J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg; 1978 Jun; 75(6):847-53. PubMed ID: 661355.
    Abstract:
    The report relates experience with six patients with Kent bundles, five of whom had the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, operated upon for tachyarrhythmias caused by the presence of the pathway. It was successfully divided in four patients, its antegrade conduction capacity interrupted in one, and a failure occurred in the sixth patient. In the three patients who had a Kent bundle with a short effective refractory period for antegrade conduction, the life-endangering potential of the Kent pathway was corrected. To emphasize the complexities of the tachyarrhythmias in Ebstein's anomaly, two patients have mild but controllable postoperative supraventricular tachyarrhythmias (SVT) due to a Mahaim pathway. The surgical problems encountered in these patients are reviewed.
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