The cause of SCD in WPW syndrome is rapid conduction of AF to the ventricles via the AP, resulting in ventricular fibrillation (VF). AF develops in one fifth to one third of patients with WPW syndrome; the reasons for this and the effects of AP ablation on its development are unclear.
Barbara Mertz (September 29, 1927 â August 8, 2013) was an American author who wrote under her own name as well as under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels.
At her birth, on Feb. 28, 1926, she was named Svetlana Stalina, the only daughter and last surviving child of the brutal Soviet tyrant Josef Stalin. After he died in 1953, she took her motherâs last name, Alliluyeva. In 1970, after her defection and an American marriage, she became and remained Lana Peters. Ms. Peters died of colon cancer on Nov. 22 in Richland County, Wis., the countyâs corporation counsel, Benjamin Southwick, said on Monday. She was 85.