Premature Ventricular Excitation Syndrome

Abstract

In the first issue of the journal "Therapeutic Archives" for 1941, an article was published by prof. LM Rakhlina "On persistent shortening of the interval P R (Q) of the electrocardiogram" [5]. In it, the author, for the first time in the domestic literature, reported on a patient suffering from heart disease, whose electrocardiographic picture was described in 1915 [9]. Later, this disease was called the Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome, after the names of the authors who, based on the results of the analysis of 11 observations, identified a special clinical and electrocardiographic syndrome [10]. In 1944, the term "ventricular premature excitation syndrome" (preexcitation, preexitation) was proposed, which is widely used in modern literature [8].