Three-dimensional histologic reconstruction of remnant functional accessory atrioventricular myocardial connections in a case of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
Three-dimensional histologic reconstruction of remnant functional accessory atrioventricular myocardial connections in a case of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
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DOI:
10.1016/j.carpath.2018.07.003
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发表时间:
2018-11-01
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Ishibashi-Ueda, Hatsue
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作者:
Matsuyama, Taka-aki;Haraguchi, Ryo;Ishibashi-Ueda, Hatsue
Myocardial bundles working as accessory pathways in Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome are generally tiny tissues, so elucidating the culprit histology of atrioventricular (AV) myocardial connections requires careful serial sectioning of the AV junction. We performed a postmortem examination of accessory AV myocardial connections in an 84-year-old man who died from pneumonia 20 years after surgical cryoablation for WPW syndrome. Three-dimensional reconstruction images of serial histologic sections revealed accessory AV connections between the atrial and ventricular myocardium in the vicinity of the cryoablation scar. The remnant myocardial bridge was 4 mm wide and made up of multiple discontinuous fibers. This case was informative in that it provided for visualization of the histologic morphology of a remnant bundle of Kent. (C) 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.