My father was just diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson White Syndrome. Could you provide details about this disease, what it is, its causes, effects and treatment? Is it something dangerous? I am worried about my father.
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This condition is an Electrocardiographic syndrome and is congenital. There is a tract present which enables the impulses from the upper part of the heart to reach the lower part after bypassing the normal impulse tract. This can result in very rapid beating of the heart called an arrhythmia. Procedure that involves catheter ablation is successful in 95% of patients. This procedure has been available about 10 years or even more and there are many physicians who perform it. In this procedure catheter is placed next to the accessory pathway responsible for WPW. Radio frequency waves damage and kill the tissue so that it doesn't function. This procedure seems quite effective but some patients still have arrhythmias - different and easier to control than before. When it comes to alternatives, it depends on how often and how severe symptoms are. As long as your father is under supervision of his doctor, I am sure that he will be ok.
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I personally have W.P.W. so I know what it's like. Basically, I was born with two electrical pathways in my heart that make it beat funny. Just think of it like a car. If it has two electric currents running to its battery, and one shouldn't be there, its going to act weird. My heart actually beats backwards and a lot harder than a normal person's would.
My doctor told me that the only way this can get dangerous is if you're 40 and over and just really mostly if you start having arrhythmia. (That's when your heart goes really fast, and it could result in heart-attack or something.) Don't get scared though. Just have him make an appointment with a cardiologist. If your dad is like me, what they will do is have an ablation done. They go through femoral arteries in the legs, try to do what they call "pacing" the heart...making it go so many beats per minute, and then he will (probably since your dad might be older,) put a pacemaker in. It's actually not as bad as it sounds. The person who replied to this before is very right. I just recommend a cardio visit! Good luck to you and your dad!
My doctor told me that the only way this can get dangerous is if you're 40 and over and just really mostly if you start having arrhythmia. (That's when your heart goes really fast, and it could result in heart-attack or something.) Don't get scared though. Just have him make an appointment with a cardiologist. If your dad is like me, what they will do is have an ablation done. They go through femoral arteries in the legs, try to do what they call "pacing" the heart...making it go so many beats per minute, and then he will (probably since your dad might be older,) put a pacemaker in. It's actually not as bad as it sounds. The person who replied to this before is very right. I just recommend a cardio visit! Good luck to you and your dad!
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