Schalij, Martin J. (et Al., Editors).: - Einthoven 2002, 100 Years Of Electrocardiography

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<p>Einthoven 2002<br />100 Years of Electrocardiography</p> <p>Edited by<br />Martin J. Schalij, Michiel J. Janse, Adriaan van Oosterom,<br />Hein J.J. Wellens & Ernst E. van der Wall</p> <p>Hundred years have gone by since Einthoven published his first paper on the<br />human electrocardiogram. As a Professor of physiology at Leiden University, he<br />had designed the string galvanometer, the first practically usable instrument to<br />record the human electrocardiogram. He had achieved such amazing technical<br />perfection that many modern electrocardiographs do not attain equally reliable<br />and undistorted recordings. By meticulous studies, with a clear physiological<br />insight and strong determination, he was able to demonstrate convincingly the<br />significance and potential of electrocardiography. The importance of his work<br />was recognized in 1924 when he was rewarded the Nobel Prize.<br />During the past hundred years the importance of electrocardiography has grown<br />to such an extent that the ECG has become the cornerstone in diagnosis and<br />treatment of diseases of the heart.<br />To commemorate Einthoven's accomplishments, the Department of Cardiology<br />of the Leiden University Medical Center organized a congress Einthoven 2002;<br />100 Years of Electrocardiography which was held June 9th - 11th 2002 in Leiden,<br />the Netherlands. This book forms the proceedings of this congress and brings,<br />in seventy one chapters, the contributions of many experts in cardiac<br />electrophysiology and computerized electrocardiography. Topics include<br />arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia, body surface mapping, sudden<br />cardiac death, computerized electrocardiography, electrocardiographic lead<br />systems, and mechanisms of reentry. Besides these topics presented in detail by<br />leading authorities, several chapters are dedicated to historical overviews. In this<br />way, the book should be of great interest to the more generalist reader as well as<br />to the more specialist reader.</p> <p>The Einthoven Foundation</p>