Variants of Ventricular Preexcitation: Recognition and Treatment

Foreword vii

Acknowledgements ix

1 Historical notes and classification of the variants of ventricular preexcitation 1

2 The anatomy of decrementally conducting fibers 7

3 Atriofascicular pathways and decrementally conducting long atrioventricular pathways 15

4 The short AV decrementally conducting fibers 59

5 Nodoventricular and Nodofascicular fibers 75

6 Fasciculoventricular fibers 83

7 Conduction disturbances in accessory pathways 103

8 Automaticity in decrementally conducting fibers 117

9 Differential diagnosis of left bundle branch block-shaped tachycardias 131

Index 149

A colour plate section faces p. 22