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Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology

A bridge to the 21st century

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  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. Andrè E. Aubert

    1. University Hospital Gasthuisberg O/N, Leuven, Belgium

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  2. Hugo Ector

    1. Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium

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  3. Roland Stroobandt

    1. Department of Cardiology, Sint-Jozef Hospital, Oostende, Belgium

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Table of contents (42 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Electrophysiology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Equipment for the electrophysiology laboratory: possibilities and limitations

      • Willem R. M. Dassen, Rob G. A. Mulleneers, Joep R. L. M. Smeets
      Pages 3-13

    3. Vasovagal syncope: clinical presentation, classification and management

      • Richard Sutton
      Pages 15-22

    4. Classification of antiarrhythmic drugs in relation to mechanisms of arrhythmias

      • Michiel J. Janse
      Pages 23-30

    5. Electrophysiological characteristics in arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia and dilated cardiomyopathies

      • Guy Fontaine, R. Frank, R. Tsezana, J. Tonet, E. Velasquez, G. Lascault
      Pages 31-40

    6. Classification of death in patients under antiarrhythmic treatment

      • Ralph Rogers, Hugo Ector, Ann Rubens, Carl Timmermans, Hein Heidbüchel, Hilaire De Geest
      Pages 41-48

    7. Heart rate variability

      • Lü Fel, Marek Malik
      Pages 49-62

    8. Heart rate variability and QT interval: their relationships with the cardiac frequency

      • Philippe Coumel, Pierre Maison-Blanche
      Pages 63-72

    9. Role of dynamic QT interval in Holter tapes to stratify risk in postmyocardial infarction patients

      • E. Rodriguez Font, E. Homs, J. Guindo, V. Martí, X. Viñolas, A. Bayés Genís et al.
      Pages 73-77

    10. Heart rate variability in patients with angina pectoris

      • Nina Rehnqvist, Inge Björkander, Lennart Forslund, Claes Held, Paul Hjemdahl
      Pages 79-82

    11. Time and frequency domain analysis of heart rate variability after myocardial infarction

      • Federico Lombardi, Giulia Sandrone, Alberto Malliani
      Pages 83-91

    12. Signal averaged ECG

      • Alfons Sinnaeve, Hugo Tassignon
      Pages 93-115

    13. Optimizing the predictive value of the signal-averaged ECG for serious arrhythmic events in the postinfarction period

      • Nabil El-Sherif
      Pages 117-124

    14. Signal-averaged analysis of the P wave: possible applications in different settings

      • M. Ali Oto
      Pages 125-129

    15. Late potentials during acute myocardial ischaemia

      • P. E. Vardas, F. J. Parthenakis, E. G. Manios
      Pages 131-136

    16. Radiofrequency catheter ablation in the treatment of supraventricular tachycardias

      • Frank Simonis, Erik Andries, Pedro Brugada
      Pages 137-143

    17. Anatomical versus electrophysiological approaches for ablation of the slow pathway in patients with AV nodal reentrant tachycardia

      • Michel Haissaguerre, Bruno Fischer, Philippe Le Métayer, Pierre Jais, Philippe Egloff, Jean-François Warin
      Pages 145-154

  3. Pacing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
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    2. Cardiac pacing in Europe in 1992: a new survey

      • Giorgio A. Feruglio
      Pages 157-168
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About this book

In 1992, clinical cardiac electrophysiology became a recognized sub-speciality of the American Board of Internal Medicine. The formal recognition of this highly specialized and technical field of medicine represents the culmination of thirty years of remarkable scientific and intellectual discovery. Beginning in the 1950s, cardiologists realized that cardiac arrhythmias were the cause of significant morbidity and the sudden death of at least 350,000 patients every year in the United States alone. At that time the only tools available for analyzing abnormal heart rhythms were the standard EKG machine and careful deductive reasoning. During the early 1960s, cardiac pacemakers reflected the first foray in the electrical therapy of cardiac arrhythmias. Pacemakers were first implanted in order to control syncopal episodes related to bradycardic heart rhythms. Although crude and bulky devices, their utility was immediately obvious to physicians and patients alike. The recognition that electrical signals could be recorded from inside the heart and that the heart's rhythm could be controlled by the application of electrical energy began the era of clinical cardiac electrophysiology which was to follow. In the late 1960s and early 1970s and at the peak of the Vietnam conflict. a group of cardiologists with special training in cardiac electrophysiology were sequestered at the US Public Health Service Hospital at Staten Island.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University Hospital Gasthuisberg O/N, Leuven, Belgium

    Andrè E. Aubert

  • Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium

    Hugo Ector

  • Department of Cardiology, Sint-Jozef Hospital, Oostende, Belgium

    Roland Stroobandt

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology

  • Book Subtitle: A bridge to the 21st century

  • Editors: Andrè E. Aubert, Hugo Ector, Roland Stroobandt

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0872-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2627-4Published: 31 March 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4377-9Published: 05 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-0872-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 441

  • Topics: Cardiology

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