Vnitr Lek 2002, 48(Supplement 1):206-209
[The deceptiveness of the electrocardiographic image in patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome].
Klíčová slova: Diagnosis, Differential; Diagnostic Errors; Electrocardiography; Humans; Myocardial Infarction, diagnosis, ; Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, diagnosis,
The urgent character of the clinical importance of the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome is among others also due to some treacherous characteristics of the electrocardiographic tracing. Three of them are mentioned in the submitted paper. The lability of the electrocardiographic tracing--spontaneous and induced--makes sometimes early detection difficult. The risk of confounding the ECG tracing of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome with myocardial infarction is considerable and sometimes underrated. Diagnosis of the ECG picture of myocardial infarction in a subject with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome may be associated with great difficulties. The electrocardiographic picture of the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome must be evaluated always with knowledge of the general clinical manifestations to prevent diagnostic, therapeutic and assessment errors.
Keywords: Diagnosis, Differential; Diagnostic Errors; Electrocardiography; Humans; Myocardial Infarction /diagnosis/; Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome /diagnosis/
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