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Anatomic Substrates of Ventricular Preexcitation

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Medical and Surgical Management of Tachyarrhythmias

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Preexcitation is defined as the condition in which part or all of the ventricular muscle mass is activated earlier than expected if activation had occurred by way of the atrioventricular node and bundle (1). Pre-excitation as so defined can exist only if, in some way or another, the delay-producing effects of the specialized atrioventricular junctional area are short-circuited. There are many clinical and electrophysiologic studies of preexcitation, yet, surprisingly, relatively little is known of the underlying pathology. Indeed, the precise nature of the anatomic pathways that may underlie preexcitation remain controversial.

R.H.Anderson is the Joseph Levy Reader in Paediatric Cardiac Morphology.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Wilhelmina Gasthuis, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    R. H. Anderson

  2. Department of Paediatrics, Cardiothoracic Institute, Brompton Hospital, London, UK

    R. H. Anderson

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  1. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Duesseldorf Heart Centre, University of Duesseldorf, Moorenstr. 5, D-4000, Duesseldorf, Germany

    Wolfgang Bircks M. D. (Professor of Surgery) & Hagen D. Schulte M. D. (Associate Professor of Surgery) (Professor of Surgery) &  (Associate Professor of Surgery)

  2. Department of Cardiology, Duesseldorf Heart Centre, University of Duesseldorf, Moorenstr. 5, D-4000, Duesseldorf, Germany

    Franz Loogen M. D. (Professor of Medicine) & Ludger Seipel M. D. (Associate Professor of Medicine) (Professor of Medicine) &  (Associate Professor of Medicine)

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Becker, A.E., Anderson, R.H. (1980). Anatomic Substrates of Ventricular Preexcitation. In: Bircks, W., Loogen, F., Schulte, H.D., Seipel, L. (eds) Medical and Surgical Management of Tachyarrhythmias. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67597-3_9

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