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Accessory pathway

An accessory pathway is an additional electrical conduction pathway between two parts of the heart. It alters characteristics of the electrical conduction system of the heart, and so has the potential to affect the cardiac cycle.It is present between right-to-left atrium and between atria-to-ventriclesConditions involving accessory pathways include: An accessory pathway is an additional electrical conduction pathway between two parts of the heart. It alters characteristics of the electrical conduction system of the heart, and so has the potential to affect the cardiac cycle.It is present between right-to-left atrium and between atria-to-ventriclesConditions involving accessory pathways include:

[ "Catheter ablation", "Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome", "Atrioventricular reentrant tachycardia", "Mahaim accessory pathway", "Pre-excitation syndrome", "Ventricular preexcitation" ]
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