[Phenotypic characteristics of patients with the premature ventricular excitation syndrome]

Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (WPWS) was combined in a majority of patients with various syndromes of primary dysplasia of connective tissue determining phenotypic characteristics of patients. They are also of considerable diagnostic importance. During examination of 200 WPWS patients, asthenic constitution, dolichocephalism and arachnodactyly were revealed in most of them. The most frequent stigmata of dysembryogenesis were the high palate (76%) the 3rd type of the ear lobe (36.6%), and epicanthus (20.5%). The funnel chest and thoracic kyphosis in the sagittal plane were noted in 30% of WPWS patients. The syndrome of articular hypermobility was diagnosed in 51.6% of the patients with WPWS, of them 37% had extraarticular manifestations in the form of varicosis of the crural veins.