Clinical trial NCT04106622: Accessory Pathway Antegrade Effective Refractory Period Among WPW Patients: the Risk in Relation to the Location
Official title: Accessory Pathway Antegrade Effective Refractory Period Among Wolff Parkinson White Patients: the Risk in Relation to the Location
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
Keywords: Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
Lead sponsor: Assiut University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-09-27
Enrollment: 35
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: CASE_ONLY
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Wolff Parkinson White patients

Brief summary: To correlate the antegrade effective refractory period of the accessory pathway with its anatomical location in the heart.

To investigate whether the accessory pathway location can predict the high risk nature of the accessory pathway

Detailed description: The Wolf-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome is a clinical entity characterized by the presence of ≥1 accessory pathways between the atria and the ventricles pre-disposing patients to arrhythmias. Anterograde conduction through the accessory pathway leads to preexcitation of the ventricles and a delta wave in the ECG. The prevalence of preexcitation in the general population has been estimated to be 1 to 3 in 1000 individuals. Although most asymptomatic patients with pre-excitation have a good prognosis, there is also a lifetime risk of malignant arrhythmias and SCD, estimated to be 0.1 % per patient year.

* More worrisome is the fact that this event can be the first manifestation of the disease in up to 53 % of patients.
* Atrial fibrillation (AF) can be a life-threatening arrhythmia in the WPW syndrome if the AV AP has a short anterograde refractory period (RP), allowing too many atrial impulses to be conducted to the ventricle.
* This will result in very high ventricular rates with possible deterioration into ventricular fibrillation (VF) and sudden death.
* Parameters proved to indicate high risk AP include AP effective refractory period \<240 ms, shortest preexcited RR interval \<250 ms
* Certain Locations were thought to be associated with higher risk of the accessory pathway like Septal localization which was significantly more frequent in patients with VF when compared with individuals with no VF but the overall number of patients is limited . .

These debatable relations between AP location and its risk stratification was not extensively studied in larger scale studies....

Eligibility criteria: 1. Inclusion criteria:

   all patients with WPW admitted to Assuit university hospital and subjected to invasive EPS
2. Exclusion criteria:

   1. heart failure
   2. cardiomyopathy

Primary outcomes:
measure: the antegrade refractory period during invasive EPS done for the patients
timeFrame: 2 hours
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Assiut University
name: M K Ibrahim, Msc
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Assiut University
name: S S Atta, Professor
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: Assiut University
name: S M Taha, Lecturer
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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