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WPWWolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome (heart disease)
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For four years, Pecaro, a running back/linebacker, suffered from Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, a rare heart condition that sometimes causes unusually fast heartbeats.
RUNNING BACK NO LONGER FEARFUL OF GIVING HIS ALL : CUTTING-EDGE ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
As increasing evidence demonstrated the short-term safety and effectiveness of the procedure, radio frequency catheter ablation has emerged as a first-line treatment, initially for patients with symptomatic Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome and more recently for patients with atrioventricular nodal reentry.
Minimally invasive surgery: a payer's point of view by Brown, Elizabeth / Physician Executive
Morady's team used catheters to map the problem pathway, and then used other catheters to destroy the faulty circuit with radio-frequency tachycardia episodes in 37 of the 40 people with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome and in 57 of the other 62 PSVT patients, for success rates of 93 and 92 percent, respectively.
Cardiac electricians: radio waves can cure a racing heart by Fackelmann, Kathy A. / Science News
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