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The past 10 years have seen a remarkable change in the approach to cardiac arrhythmias, from a position of confidence and a feeling of well-being about pharmacological treatment to a situation in which there is now marked uncertainty and general apprehension about the role of antiarrhythmic drugs. Until relatively recently the prevailing concept in antiarrhythmic therapy was that arrhythmias could be controlled by drugs which slowed conduction or suppressed automaticity, goals well served by the sodium channel-blocking drugs and glycosides. Drug re search was based largely on the development...

Das Buch f}hrt den Anf{nger in die routinem{ ige echo- kardiographische Untersuchungstechnik ein und vermittelt ihm gleichzeitig Kenntnisse besonderer kardiologischangio- logischer Krankheitsbilder, dem Fortgeschrittenen werden auch weniger }bliche Techniken der konventionellen Echo- kardiographie erl{utert. Dar}berhinaus wird der Leser ausf}hrlich }ber Methodik, Risiko und Indikationsstellung der sophagusechokardiographiesowie den aktuellen Stand der Kontrastechokardiographie informiert.

In this book, well-known physicians, Bocker, Eckardt and Breithardt have put together a succinct and focused book that compliments the CATA Series well. Implantation of defibrillators has evolved dramatically since its introduction by Mirowski in 1980. Technological improvements in devices and leads included a gradual reduction in the size of the device, the introduction of the endocardial approach in 1988, the biphasic waveform and antitachycardia pacing in 1991, pectoral implantation in 1995, inclusion of DDD pacing in 1996 and the delivery of atrial therapies in 1998.

Since the...