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(Circulation. 1973;48:655.)
© 1973 American Heart Association, Inc.

Arrival of Excitation at the Right Ventricular Apical Endocardium in Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome Type B

BENJAMIN BEFELER M.D.1; AGUSTIN CASTELLANOS JR. M.D.1; CESAR A. CASTILLO M.D.1; ABDUL S. AGHA M.D.1; M. CELESTE VAGUEIRO M.D.1; ROBERT J. MYERBURG M.D.1

1 From the Cardiovascular Laboratory, Veterans Administration Hospital and the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida.

His bundle and bipolar right ventricular apex (RVA) and right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) catheter electrograms taken from sites 1 mm apart were recorded simultaneously with various surface leads in two patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (WPW) type B. In "fusion" beats the presence of a normal H-RVA interval indicated that the apex of the right ventricle was activated by the impulse emerging from the right branch. On the other hand, a shorter-than-normal H-RVA interval implied that the RVA was depolarized by the activation front propagating from the pre-excited site. When this occurred, the V-RVA intervals gave a rough estimate of conduction time from pre-excited area to RVA. The values obtained (40 and 50 msec, respectively) were shorter than in two other patients with WPW type A.

The arrival of excitation patterns in the right ventricular endocardium were similar in WPW type B and in beats produced by RVA stimulation but differed markedly from that of left anterior hemiblock even when the surface electrocardiographic leads showed abnormal left axis deviation in all instances. This resemblance between ventricular complexes attributed to WPW type B and those resulting from stimulation of an inferior (apical) site suggests, but does not prove, that the impulses propagated from an equivalent region of the right ventricle. These simultaneously recorded His bundle and right ventricular endocardial electrograms during electrical stimulation of the heart have increased our knowledge of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.


Key Words: His bundle electrogram • Right ventricular apical electrogram • Right ventricular outflow tract electrogram • Fusion beats • Left axis deviation

Submitted on September 27, 1972
Accepted on March 26, 1973






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