Will C. Sealy

TL;DR: Surgery offers a feasible therapeutic alternative for patients with life-threatening or disabling arrhythmias but demands a team equipped to perform precise preoperative and intraoperative mapping studies to define the type and location of underlying anatomic substrates.

TL;DR: It is felt that in selected patients, surgical correction of the WPW syndrome is entirely feasible, and can be accomplished in the majority of patients in whom free wall A-V connections are present.

TL;DR: Surgical transection of the atrioventricular junction at that point abolished the electrocardiographic features of WPW and the recurrent tachycardia, and five months after surgery the signs and symptoms of congestive heart failure have subsided, and the patient has returned to work.

TL;DR: Cryothermia, a new technique for definitive treatment of the pre-excitation syndrome, is described in two patients who presented with a normal P-R interval with a delta wave and reciprocating tachycardia and was found to have an AP in the septum capable of only retrograde conduction.

TL;DR: Development of an improved method for instantaneous freezing (-196° C.) of sequential cerebral biopsies permits the accurate determination of ATP (adenosine triphosphate) disappearance during complete circulatory arrest and recovery, which results in a three- to fourfold increase in survival of cerebral ATP duringcirculatory arrest.