Management of Cardiac Arrhythmias
Few areas of medicine are evolving as rapidly as cardiac electrophysiology. What were only a short time ago seen to be lethal rhythm disturbances can now be treated with confidence in a diverse spectrum of patients. The first edition of Management of Card
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Contemporary Cardiology Christopher P. Cannon, MD SERIES EDITOR
Annemarie M. Armani, MD EXECUTIVE EDITOR
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Management of Cardiac Arrhythmias Edited by
Gan-Xin Yan, MD, PhD Main Line Health Heart Center Wynnewood, PA, USA
Peter R. Kowey, MD Jefferson Medical College Philadelphia, PA, USA
Editors Gan-Xin Yan, MD, PhD Main Line Health Heart Center and Lankenau Institute for Medical Research Wynnewood, PA, USA [email protected]
Peter R. Kowey, MD Jefferson Medical College Philadelphia, PA, USA and Main Line Health Heart Center Wynnewood, PA, USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-60761-160-8 e-ISBN 978-1-60761-161-5 DOI 10.1007/978-1-60761-161-5 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010934347 C Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2002, 2011
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Preface It is safe to say that few areas of medicine have moved faster than cardiac electrophysiology. In three short decades, our field has grown from its infancy to a highly sophisticated subspecialty of cardiology, complete with its own societies, scientific meetings, and board examination. Key to our successes has been a progressively more in-depth understanding of pathophysiology from our basic science laboratories. Burgeoning knowledge has been accompanied by a blitzkrieg of technology that has allowed us to treat what used to be lethal rhythm disturbances and to improve the quality of life of millions of people the world over. In 2010, we stand on the threshold of an even more impressive leap forward as we wrestle with defining how the genetic code predisposes to, or even causes, cardiac arrhythmias. The price to pay for such rapid expansion of information is an ever-widening knowledge gap. It is obvious that practitioners who spend their time caring for pa
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