Incidence of life-threatening events in children with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome: Analysis of a large claims database

• Published in: Heart rhythm Vol. 19; no. 4; pp. 642 - 647
• Main Authors: Janson, Christopher M., Millenson, Marisa E., Okunowo, Oluwatimilehin, Dai, Dingwei, Christmyer, Zane, Tan, Reina Bianca, Ramesh Iyer, V., Shah, Maully J., O’Byrne, Michael L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.04.2022
• Subjects: Adolescent; Atrial fibrillation; Child; Child, Preschool; Humans; Incidence; Infant; Life-threatening event; Outcomes; Prevalence; Retrospective Studies; Sudden cardiac death; Ventricular fibrillation; Ventricular Fibrillation - epidemiology; Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome; Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome - complications; Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome - diagnosis; Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome - epidemiology; Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome; Sudden cardiac death; Life-threatening event; Atrial fibrillation; Outcomes; Ventricular fibrillation

Previous estimates of life-threatening event (LTE) risk in Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome are limited by selection bias inherent to tertiary care referral-based cohorts. This analysis sought to measure LTE incidence in children with WPW syndrome in a large contemporary representative populatio...