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The saying, "What one does not know, one does not recognize", applies to the interpretation of the electrocardiogram. Recently a wealth of new information on the electrocardiogram has become avail able by correlating electrocardiographic findings with information from new techniques such as His bundle recordings, programmed stimulation of the heart, 24-hour record ing~, and cardiac scintigraphy. Also, our knowledge about the electrocardiogram has been extended by acquiring new epidemiologic data and by follow-up studies on patients with myocardial infarction and bundle branch block. Unfortunately, this new information has to be dug out of several different journals and books. This book brings together this information and ,helps the practicing physi cian in updating his or her knowledge about the 12-lead electrocardiogram as a diagnostic, therapeutic, and prognostic tool. Hein J.1. WELLENS Henri E. KULBERTUS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Originally, the contents of this book were presented in a workshop on "What is new in electrocardiography?" This workshop was made possible by the generous financial support and assistance of Roussel Nederland. Each of the speakers at the workshop kindly consented to produce a manuscript. We want to express our gratitude to them. The preparation of the workshop, and this book, required a great amount of secretarial assistance: Mrs. Bea Leliveld, Miss Anja Smeets, and Mrs. Thea Niemeyer did this with dedication and efficiency. They surely deserve our thanks. Mr. B.F. Commandeur and Martinus Nijhoff Publishers were responsible for the rapid and expert production of this book.
List of contents
1. Prognostic significance of the electrocardiogram in patients with coronary heart disease.- 2. Correlation between electrocardiographic and scintigraphic findings in myocardial infarction.- 3. Assessment of the value of electrocardiographic signs for myocardial infarction in left bundle branch block.- 4. Electrocardiographic diagnostic dilemmas in myocardial ischemia and infarction.- 5. Electrocardiographic diagnosis of myocardial infarction in pacemaker patients.- 6. Relation between exercise electrocardiogram and extent of coronary artery disease.- 7. Prognostic value of limited exercise testing before hospital discharge following myocardial infarction.- 8. Approach to the patient with bundle branch block.- 9. The value of the electrocardiogram in diagnosing site of origin and mechanism of supraventricular tachycardia.- 10. The short PR internal.- 11. The differentiation between ventricular tachycardia and supraventricular tachycardia with aberrant conduction: the value of the 12-lead electrocardiogram.- 12. Relation between site of origin and QRS configuration in ventricular rhythms.- 13. Torsade de Pointes.- 14. Electrocardiographic diagnosis of pacemaker malfunction.- 15. Electrocardiographic changes occurring with advancing age.- 16. The electrocardiogram in digitalis intoxication.- 17. Holter monitoring and cardiac rhythm.- 18. The electrocardiogram in pulmonary embolism.
Report
`The title What's New in Electrocardiography makes it almost inevitable that anyone who has to deal with electrocardiography will at least take this book down from the shelf. ...a book of real merit which should save the practicing physician a considerable amount of time by providing, under one cover, information which otherwise could only be obtained with difficulty via the scrutiny of many scientific journals.'
Clinical Cardiology (1982)
