Can anyone tell me about the disease Wolff Parkinson White Syndrome?

I had aurgery for wpw Wolff Parkinson White Syndrome 2 years back and i have made several ecg's and everything was normal but recently i started feeling left side pain of my chest and it goes down to my left arm and it comes twice a day and stays for about 5 to 20 minutes and its so painful, and i want to ask also does the disease wpw comes back again after the ablation surgery or not im 27 years old nowhealthy and in good shape and i work 8 hours a day..

Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome is a rare disorder involving irregularities in the heartbeat (cardiac arrhythmia). Patients have an extra circuit or pathway, called the Bundle of Kent, through which electrical signals are conducted to the heart, allowing excessive stimulation. Palpitations (sensation of rapid or irregular beating of the heart), weakness, and shortness of breath may occur.

I have had the exact same thing happen to me. I know it is different for everyone. 2 years to the date I had the pains too, my doc said it was nothing, basically healing pains. now i get them ever so often but only as sharp shooting pains that stop me in my tracks and knock the wind out of me.

Now 5 years since my ablation, and high stress i have PVC's (Premature Ventricular Contractions) where the bottom ventricle beats off from the top ventrical. Makes me short of breath and a pressure feeling on my chest.

My advice to you is see a doctor 1st and foremost it may be different for you. The tests they did for me were a stress-echo which deals with the "electrical" part of your heart, I also wore a heart monitor for 1 month. Both showed nothing.

If you have WPW then after 2 years you will have that rapid heart rate again (same symptoms as before) if it doesn't then you truly dont have WPW (according to my doctor) it is supraventricular tachacardia look it up webmd.com very good info on that website. http://www.webmd.com/hw/heart_disease/ps...

If you have any more questions about what else I have went through feel free to e-mail me at stefanie1506@yahoo.com

See the doctor.

If there's an extra conduction pathway, the electrical signal may arrive at the ventricles too soon. This condition is called Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (WPW). It's in a category of electrical abnormalities called "pre-excitation syndromes."

It's recognized by certain changes on the electrocardiogram, which is a graphical record of the heart's electrical activity. The ECG will show that an extra pathway or shortcut exists from the atria to the ventricles.

Many people with this syndrome who have symptoms or episodes of tachycardia (rapid heart rhythm) may have dizziness, chest palpitations, fainting or, rarely, cardiac arrest. Other people with WPW never have tachycardia or other symptoms. About 80 percent of people with symptoms first have them between the ages of 11 and 50.

You need to go the ER or your cardiologist as soon as possible-you could be having a heart attack! Don't dismiss these symptoms just because your 27 and relatively healthy. You had an ablation of an abnormal excitation site 2 years ago-not to say another site couldn't develop-so check with your cardiologist about that.

First I would see the Doctor. Now with that out of the way.

WPW is like a super highway for the electrical system of your heart. It is seen on the ecg as a "P" that merges into the "QRS" complex, the result is called a delta wave.
The procedure called an ablation is where, "in reality" they damage that super highway to slow the electrical conduction.

This is highly questionable wether or not that would regenerate. How ever in any case you should not be experiencing pain from the WPW. You should how ever feel a faster heart rate if anything.

This is why I say go to the doctor, as you may be experiencing angina, or worse.

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Jerry

WPW will not come back once a successful ablation is performed. It is a permanent cure. Sometimes, however, the "burning" is not complete, and the extra electrical pathway can still conduct impulses. Most people feel palpitations, dizzy or light-headed when this happens.
The pain you describe could simply be muscle pain, but it is also consistent with angina. Does it come on when you are very active or exercising? Do you have any other associated symptoms like shortness of breath? You may want to have a stress-test that will help sort it out.