A CASE OF SHORT PR INTERVAL AND PROLONGED QRS COMPLEX WITH A PAROXYSM OF VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA
Authors: Max J. Klainer, Harold H. Joffe
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1946)

Case Reports1 May 1946A CASE OF SHORT PR INTERVAL AND PROLONGED QRS COMPLEX WITH A PAROXYSM OF VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIAMAX J. KLAINER, HAROLD H. JOFFEMAX J. KLAINER, HAROLD H. JOFFEAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-24-5-920 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn 1930 Wolff, Parkinson and White called attention to a syndrome of "bundle branch block with short PR interval" occurring in healthy young people who were prone to recurrent attacks of paroxysmal auricular tachycardia or auricular fibrillation.1In recent years this syndrome has been recognized with increasing frequency and it has been established that this was not a bundle branch block, but the manifestation of an early arrival in the ventricle of the auricular impulse through an accessory pathway, the bundle of Kent.2, 3In 1941 Levine and Beeson called attention to the fact that this syndrome could also be...Bibliography1. WOLFFPARKINSONWHITE LJPD: Bundle branch block with short PR interval in healthy young people prone to paroxysmal tachycardia, Am. Heart Jr., 1930, v, 685. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. WOLFERTHWOOD CCFC: The mechanism of production of short PR intervals and prolonged QRS complexes in patients with presumably undamaged hearts: hypothesis of an accessory pathway of auriculoventricular conduction (bundle of Kent), Am. Heart Jr., 1933, viii, 297. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. WOODWOLFERTHGECKELER FCCCGD: Histologic demonstration of accessory muscular connections between auricle and ventricle in a case of short PR interval and prolonged QRS complex, Am. Heart Jr., 1943, xxv, 454. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. LEVINEBEESON SAPB: The Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome with paroxysms of ventricular tachycardia, Am. Heart Jr., 1941, xxii, 401. CrossrefGoogle Scholar5. WILLIAMSELLIS CLB: Ventricular tachycardia, Arch. Int. Med., 1943, lxxi, 137. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6. MARRA AF: Report of a case of paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia with no demonstrable organic heart disease which produced attacks of syncope, Am. Heart Jr., 1944, xxviii, 810. CrossrefGoogle Scholar7. FOXTRAVELLMOLOFSKY TTJL: Action of digitalis on conduction in the syndrome of short PR interval and prolonged QRS complex, Arch. Int. Med., 1943, lxxi, 206. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8. FOX TT: Aberrant atrio-ventricular conduction in a case showing a short PR interval and an abnormal but not prolonged QRS complex, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1945 ccix, 199. CrossrefGoogle Scholar9. WOLFERTHWOOD CCFC: Further observations on the mechanism of the production of a short PR interval in association with prolongation of the QRS complex, Am. Heart Jr., 1941, xxii, 450. CrossrefGoogle Scholar10. BUTTERWORTHPOINDEXTER SJCA: Short PR interval associated with a prolonged QRS complex, Arch. Int. Med., 1942, lxix, 437. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: *Received for publication May 5, 1945. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byParoxysmal ventricular tachycardia in Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome: Case report and review of the literatureSpectrum of regular tachycardias with wide QRS complexes in patients with accessory atrioventricular pathwaysWolff-Parkinson-White syndromeMimics of ventricular tachycardia associated with the W-P-W syndromeArrhythmias in the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndromeWolff-Parkinson-White syndromeDie Rhythmusstörungen des Herzens (einschließlich der intramuralen Leitungsstörungen und des Alternans)Paroxysmal pseudoventricular tachycardia and pseudoventricular fibrillation in patients with accelerated A-V conductionThe Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome associated with paroxysmal ventricular tachycardiaAuricular Fibrillation in a Case of Pre-excitation (WPW-Syndrome)The effect of atropine on the cardiac mechanism in anomalous atrioventricular conductionThe course of the excitation wave in patients with electrocardiograms showing short P-R intervals and wide QRS complexes (Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome)Ventricular Tachycardia during Cardiac Catheterization of Patient with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome 1 May 1946Volume 24, Issue 5Page: 920-927KeywordsTachycardiaVentricular tachycardia ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 May 1946 PDF downloadLoading ...