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European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Vol 2, 201-206, Copyright © 1988 by European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery

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Surgical approach to anterior septal accessory pathways in 20 patients with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome

GM Guiraudon, GJ Klein, AD Sharma, R Yee, EA Pineda and DG McLellan
Department of Caridovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital, London, Ontario, Canada.

Right anterior septal accessory pathways in the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome are generally defined by electrophysiological criteria, the most important being that earliest retrograde atrial activation during AV reciprocating tachycardia occurs at the anterior medial segment of the tricuspid annulus (His bundle catheter). The purpose of our study is to describe intraoperative mapping in 20 patients with anterior septal accessory pathways, and to assess if intraoperative mapping contributes to the operative approach. At surgery, all patients had identical early ventricular activation during pre-excitation at the infundibulum. However, two groups could be identified on the basis of retrograde atrial epicardial activation during AV reciprocating tachycardia or right ventricular pacing. Group 1 comprised 16 patients with earliest activation at the interatrial septum adjacent to the His bundle. Epicardial dissection failed to affect accessory pathway conduction. The accessory pathway was only ablated when a discrete endocardial approach to the atrial septum was used. Group 2 comprised 4 patients with early atrial activation "paraseptally" in the right coronary fossa. These accessory pathways were ablated by an epicardial approach without using cardiopulmonary bypass. We conclude that right anterior septal accessory pathways as defined by electrophysiological criteria can be divided into two groups on the basis of the atrial activation sequence: (1) right septal accessory pathways in the septal para-Hissian region and (2) right anterior 'paraseptal' accessory pathways. This classification is of practical importance because the latter can be ablated using an epicardial approach without the need for cardiopulmonary bypass or atriotomy.

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