title: Treatment of Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome With a Thoracoscopic Surgical Procedure.
abstract: Thoracoscopic surgery for the treatment of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome is rare. We report a case of thoracoscopic surgical ablation of the epicardial pathway in a 13-year-old female patient. Intraoperative electroanatomic mapping was performed to identify the exact location of accessory electrical conduction in the right atrioventricular groove. Stamping ablation using a bipolar radiofrequency pen device achieved irreversible disappearance of the delta wave. Eight months after the surgical procedure, there has been no recurrence of arrhythmia in this patient.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Motoko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tanoue
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address: saka-165@nms.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Shun-Ichiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sakamoto
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Yasushi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Miyauchi
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Jitsuo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Usuda
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nitta
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013906:Thoracoscopy; D014927:Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome / Q000601:surgery*