Chitwood W R
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, East Carolina University School of Medicine, Greenville, NC 27858.
Ann Thorac Surg. 1994 Oct;58(4):1228-39. doi: 10.1016/0003-4975(94)90521-5.
The development of clinical electrophysiology and arrhythmia surgery has a long and interesting history. On May 2, 1968, Dr. Will C. Sealy, with the electrophysiologists at Duke University, performed the first successful ablation of a pathway in a patient with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome using an epicardial approach. Thereafter, he and his colleagues developed improved endocardial techniques to ensure ablation of even multiple and complex anatomic pathways. From this work the impulse to perform these procedures spread worldwide, and a school of arrhythmia surgeons sprouted. For these and other accomplishments, Dr. Sealy clearly became the Father of Arrhythmia Surgery. The story is told herein.
临床电生理学和心律失常外科的发展有着漫长而有趣的历史。1968年5月2日，威尔·C·西利博士与杜克大学的电生理学家们一起，采用心外膜途径，首次成功地对一名患有预激综合征的患者的一条传导通路进行了消融。此后，他和他的同事们开发了改进的心内膜技术，以确保即使是多条复杂的解剖传导通路也能被消融。这项工作促使进行这些手术的冲动在全球范围内传播，一批心律失常外科医生应运而生。鉴于这些以及其他成就，西利博士显然成为了心律失常外科之父。本文讲述了这个故事。
