The bundle of Kent
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The bundle of Kent is an accessory (pathological) bundle of cardiac muscle connecting the atria and ventricles. It is present, congenitally, only in a small number of people, in whom it is often the cause of premature activation of the ventricles - preexcitation. Physiologically, the atria and ventricles are connected only by the bundle of His.
The most common syndrome of ventricular preexcitation is Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome - WPW. It is a cardiac arrhythmia in which the excitation (wave of depolarization) propagates from the atria to the ventricles outside the AV node. The accessory pathway here is the bundle of Kent.
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- Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
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Sources[edit | edit source]
- TROJAN, Stanislav, et al. Lékařská fyziologie. 4. edition. Praha : Grada, 2004. 772 pp. ISBN 80-247-0512-5.
- VOKURKA, Martin – HUGO, Jan, et al. Velký lékařský slovník. 9. edition. Praha : Maxdorf, 2009. 1159 pp. ISBN 978-80-7345-202-5.
