title: Extracorporeal life support for cardiac arrest in a 13-year-old girl caused by Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
abstract: Generally, Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome presents good prognosis. However, several case reports demonstrated malignant arrhythmia or sudden cardiac death as WPW syndrome's first presentation. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation using extracorporeal life support is a therapeutic option in refractory cardiac arrest. We present a WPW syndrome patient who had sudden cardiac arrest as the first presentation of the disease and treated it using extracorporeal life support with good neurologic outcome.
authors: Department of Emergency Medicine, Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
authors: Kyoung Hwan
authors: KH
authors: Song
authors: Department of Emergency Medicine, Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: bbukkuk@hanmail.net.
authors: Byung Kook
authors: BK
authors: Lee
authors: Department of Emergency Medicine, Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
authors: Kyung Woon
authors: KW
authors: Jeung
authors: Department of Emergency Medicine, Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
authors: Dong Hun
authors: DH
authors: Lee
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D015199:Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D058687:Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D014927:Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology