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ArticleJACC. Case reports2025

Teen Presentation of Dyssynchronous Left Ventricular Cardiomyopathy Secondary to Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome and Right-Sided Septal Pathway.

Pal V Shah, Dhruvil A Patel, Madhusudan Ganigara, Michael G Earing

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Pal V ShahDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Electronic address: palshah2@uic.edu.
Dhruvil A PatelDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Madhusudan GanigaraDepartment of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Michael G EaringDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Department of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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Abstract

backgroundWolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome is associated with an abnormal accessory conduction pathway leading to ventricular pre-excitation and potential re-entrant tachyarrhythmias. CASE SUMMARY: A 13-year-old female presents with shortness of breath, cough, and wheezing for 1 day. She was tachycardic with a left bundle branch block. Echocardiographic findings were notable for dyskinetic septal wall motion with a repeat electrocardiogram uncovering pre-excitation pattern consistent with WPW syndrome and an expected right septal or posteroseptal accessory pathway. Tachycardia had self-resolved, and an outpatient radiofrequency ablation (RFA) was scheduled. DISCUSSION: WPW syndrome with right septal or posteroseptal accessory pathways causes eccentric septal mechanical activation and may provoke left ventricular (LV) dys-synchrony and dysfunction. Successful RFA is associated with normalization of QRS duration, mechanical resynchronization, and improved LV function. TAKE-HOME MESSAGE: Even in the absence of arrhythmias, our center advocates RFA of right septal or posteroseptal pathways in all patients with significantly decreased LV function.

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cardiomyopathydys-synchronyseptal pathwayWolff-Parkinson-White syndrome

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PMCPMC12441571

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