[The deceptiveness of the electrocardiographic image in patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome].
The urgent character of the clinical importance of the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome is among others also due to some treacherous characteristics of the electrocardiographic tracing. Three of them are mentioned in the submitted paper. The lability of the electrocardiographic tracing--spontaneous and induced--makes sometimes early detection difficult. The risk of confounding the ECG tracing of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome with myocardial infarction is considerable and sometimes underrated. Diagnosis of the ECG picture of myocardial infarction in a subject with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome may be associated with great difficulties. The electrocardiographic picture of the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome must be evaluated always with knowledge of the general clinical manifestations to prevent diagnostic, therapeutic and assessment errors.
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D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis; D014927:Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*