Talk:Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome

...I wonder how this article would look on the Wikipedia in Simple English. It looks extremely jargon-laden to me. -pne 15:49, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Added image
Added a pretty picture showing some classic EKG changes. °Hello, My friends daughter was diagnosed with WPWs recently. She is only 21 years old. Anyone have any suggestions of how to make the family feel better while she is waiting for treatment from the doctors ? Those of you who have gone through this and are going through this, do you have any advice for daughter , mom and dad ? Can use all the encouragement you can dish out while still saying the truth. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clover45 (talk • contribs) 16:59, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Re-write
Article pretty much re-written (except for the first paragraph). Not to simplify the language, but to increase the content. WPW syndrome, like most medical diseases, is extremely complex. If someone doesn't understand a term, we can create an article to define the term. Ksheka 00:53, May 4, 2005 (UTC)

Addendum: Changed definition of 'palpitations' in parentheses from "sudden onset and termination of a fast heart rate", as this is not a correct definition. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.176.105.145 (talk) 13:53, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Image
I liked the original image better, especially how it points to the different abnormal characteristics.

Intro paragraph
Will someone please change the intro text?! I just came here looking to learn about it and cannot tell what it's supposed to be with all of the medical terms. Pre-excitation, what's that? Aaрон Кинни (t) 07:47, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Genetics
Some WPW syndrome cases are genetic, there is some PD information on that here. --Peta 02:27, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Notable patient
Portland Trail Blazers forward LaMarcus Aldridge was recently diagnosed with this condition. I'll let others decide if that information is appropriate for the article. --216.99.203.216 05:36, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

A quick search showed no references, but during a Chicago Cubs TV broadcast in 2008 Garlin talked about his WPW syndrome and how he had cardiac ablation done to successfully correct it —Preceding unsigned comment added by Regnad kcin75 (talk • contribs) 23:43, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Merger Proposal
Bundle of Kent is at best an offshoot of this article, and is barely a stub... I feel it could be integrated here pretty easily... If I don't get too much negative feedback, I'll merge them in a few weeks? Toombes 05:37, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

I think so too, the WPW article is not so big, when user searches for bundle of kent, he will find it easy in WPW. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.196.147.187 (talk) 01:51, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

I agree. So far as I know, clinically WPW is the only pathology related to B of K. (P Bryner, RN) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.229.184.54 (talk) 22:36, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Agreed. I'll move it over and then redirect Bundle of Kent to the appropriate section. (EhJJ)TALK 19:23, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Is Blair Really Diagnosed as WPW?
The reference given by article for Blair's illness redirects to a BBC news. However, in this news article the illness is referred as an atrial flutter, not WPW syndrome. Altough atrial flutters and fibrillations could be seen with pre-excitation syndromes, patients diagnosed as atrial flutter usually does not have WPW. These conditions are seperate. So, either the article is incorrect, or a reference is given erronously.212.156.37.18 17:36, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Hey, I noticed that too. Lets take Blair off the list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.122.43.251 (talk) 17:22, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Capital S for syndrome, Its a title.
wnated to change it but i dont know if other links will still lead to it, like the category:syndrome, list. Some body who knows better should thou. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.196.147.187 (talk) 02:01, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Disagree. Wikipedia's convention on article titles is that lower case should be used except for names, etc. In this case, it's called "Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome" and not "Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome", so name should remain as-is, with a lower case "s". (EhJJ)TALK 19:28, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Change tachydysrhythmia
Should tachydysrhythmia in the treatment paragraph be changed to Tachycardia currently the link is broken —Preceding unsigned comment added by Student54 (talk • contribs) 13:30, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Wolff Parkinson Whte Syndrome
I have been diagnosed with WPWS about twenty years ago and for the last 8 years have been taken off Beta Blockers and told I no longer need them, I am interested to know if the condition worsens as the years go on. Only last week I had the wrost attack of palpitations and light headedness, I thought the palpitations were about to rise up my body to my throat. Not a nice feeling.

Joyce G —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.33.9.79 (talk) 09:28, 6 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Interesting. I was told that I should avoid beta-blockers and calcium channel blockers because of WPW. It's pretty much asymptomatic for me, so the only downside that came with the diagnosis was "avoid these medications". Maybe I need to see a cardiologist again. Jedku (talk) 06:18, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

File:WPW09.JPG
The third ECG (File:WPW09.JPG) doesn't seem to show WPW Syndrome. Can you guys see the delta wave? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Enigma55 (talk • contribs) 06:34, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Beta-blockers and WPW
"Beta-blockers and other pharmacological agents that slow the conduction through the AV pathway (such as digoxin) should be avoided, because they will exacerbate the syndrome, by blocking the normal heart's electrical pathway, therefore exaggerating the pre-excitation pathway (Bundle of Kent)."

Where did this information come from? Beta-blockers reduce sympathetic stimulation of the heart, so surely that would reduce conduction through both the AV pathway AND the bundle of Kent?

Contrary to what the article says, oral beta-blockers ARE used in WPW syndrome. "However, long-term oral therapy with these agents may be beneficial, especially in patients in whom enhanced sympathetic tone is responsible for the initiation or maintenance of tachycardia." Beta-blocker therapy for the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome- Eric N. Prystowsky et al. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 33LB (talk • contribs) 00:33, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

File:220px-WPW_EKG_leadV2.png
The description accompanying this figure concludes with the text below:

"Note the characteristic delta wave (above the blue bar), the short PR interval (red bar) of 0.08 seconds, and the long QRS complex (green) at 0.12 seconds."

Presuming the standard electrocardiograph tracing rate and electrical scale (abscissa: 1 millimeter = 40 milliseconds; ordinate: 1 millimeter = 0.1 millivolts), it appears that the red bar is correct, but the green bar is only about 65 milliseconds, a little over half the stated duration.

The sum of the blue bar and the green bar is, indeed, 120 milliseconds, and if the QRS complex can be considered to start at the beginning of the delta wave, then I recommend that the description for this figure be changed accordingly.

I further recommend that the times be stated in milliseconds, to conform with standard practice among cardiologists (both in the Americas, as well as in Europe), despite the fact that the second is the SI unit of time.

If I am correct in my assessment of the facts, the description should conclude with:

"Note the characteristic delta wave (above the blue bar), the short PR interval (red bar) of 80 msec, and the long QRS complex (blue bar plus green bar) at 120 msec." Laborerchemist (talk) 20:46, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Too Technical
I added the "too technical" header since this information is difficult for a non-expert to parse. Apparently this has been an issue with this article for the last 13 years, judging by that March '04 complaint about jargon! 72.174.157.59 (talk) 23:52, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

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