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n volume 2, No. 3 (2014) of this journal an interesting case report, describing a patient with atrial filbrillation (AF) and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (WPW), was published (1). As the respective authors described, the patient was a 23-year-old man who had palpitation, on the Electrocardiograph (ECG), which was provided, we saw irregular monomorphic wide complex tachycardia with a heart rate of about 150 per minute. The patient was treated with digoxin and consequently developed severe lethargy, weakness, sweating and bradycardia. Post treatment ECG showed normal sinus rhythm (heart rate about 60) and obvious signs of WPW syndrome (short PR interval, initial delta waves and wide QRS).
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