XXX International Congress on  Electrocardiology      Midnight  Sun  Symposium
Wednesday 11 June
12:00 - 14:00
Workshop 1: Early ECG manifestations of Acute Myocardial Ischemia and Infarction
Moderator: Olle Pahlm, Lund, Sweden

Impact of collaterals and pre-conditioning on myocardial response to acute ischemia
Yochai Birnbaum, Galveston, USA

Cellular and ionic basis for ST elevation
Jose Di Diego, Utica, USA

Perspectives on body surface mapping in acute ischemic syndromes
Helena Hänninen, Helsinki, Finland

Cases illustrating use of the initial ECG for decision support
Markku Eskola, Tampere, Finland

14:15 - 15:45
Workshop 2: Epicardial and Endocardial Ischemia / Injury     Return to Top
Moderator: Kari Niemelä, Tampere, Finland

Evolutionary changes on the ECG after myocardial infarction - pathophysiology and prognostic implications
Samuel Sclarovsky, Petach Tikva, Israel

Gender-related differences in the development of ST elevation and conduction impairment
Charles Antzelevitch, Utica, USA

Cases illustrating use of the ECG for decision support after determination of the coronary anatomy
Kjell Nikus, Tampere, Finland


17.00  Wednesday 11 June
Opening Ceremony

Ragnar Granit Lecture: Modelling cardiac electric fields     Return to Top
Olaf Dössel, Karlsruhe, Germany

Thursday 12 June
8:30
Rijlant Lecture: Evolution of electrocardiographic research. Holy doctorines and heretic concepts     Return to Top
Pentti Rautaharju, Winston-Salem, USA

9:15 - 10:00
Poster presentations     Return to Top

The heart-rate recovery may be influenced by the ischemic preconditioning?
Beatriz M. Ayub Ferreira, Sao Paulo, Brazil

A new method for monitoring of the ballistocardiogram
Motonobu Hoshino, Tokorozawa, Japan

Exercise ECG system using elliptical training equipment and bluetooth technology
Stasys Korsakas, Kaunas, Lithuania

New synchronous measurement technique for intracardiac impedance analysis
Alar Kuusik, Tallinn, Estonia

Validation of ST/HR hysteresis in detection of coronary artery disease among exercise tested patients referred for coronary angiography
Rami Lehtinen, Tampere, Finland

Layer-to-layer heart electrical image based on magnetocardiography data in comparison with perfusion image based on PET clinical cases
Michael Primin, Essen, Germany

Evaluation of reversible ischemic injury during open heart surgery by impedance spectroscopy
Claus J. Preusse, Bonn, Germany

Early electrocardiographic aging in Down syndrome patients
Algimantas Sinkus, Kaunas, Lithuania

Origination of Foucault cardiogram by impedance redistribution: Transfer coefficient approach
Konstantin Skaburskas, Tartu, Estonia

Dynamics of recovery process on ECG after bicycle ergometry for different aged women and men
Alfonsas Vainoras, Kaunas, Lithuania


10:15 - 12:00  Thursday 12 June
ISE - Over 30 Years of Linking Electrocardiology Research Worldwide     Return to Top
Chair Persons: Peter Macfarlane  and  Jerome Liebman

Colloquium Vectorcardiographicum 1959-1973
Peter Macfarlane, Glasgow, Scotland

The Polish contribution
Jozef Jagielski and Malgorzata Sobieszczanska, Wroclaw, Poland

The Czech contribution
Ivan Ruttkay-Nedecky and Ljuba Bacharova, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

The International Congress of Electrocardiology 1974-2003
Peter Macfarlane, Glasgow, Scotland

Selected contributions from Western Europe
Adriaan van Oosterom, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

The North American contribution
Jerome Liebman, Cleveland, USA

The Japanese contribution
Masayasu Hiraoka, Tokyo, Japan

Epilogue
Peter Macfarlane, Glasgow, Scotland

10:15 - 12:00  Thursday 12 June
Bioimpedance Based Cardiac Monitoring
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Chair Persons: Mart Min and Rodney Salo

Introduction lecture: Electrical impedance and cardiac monitoring - Technology, potential and applications
Mart Min, Tallinn, Estonia; Stig Ollmar, Huddinge, Sweden and Eberhard Gersing, Göttingen, Germany

Application of impedance volume measurement to implantable device
Rodney Salo, St. Paul, USA

Accuracy of conductance catheter measurements in a realistic numerical heart model: Validation of reciprocal equivalent distance extrapolation
Rodney Salo, St. Paul, USA

Impedance controlled pacing rate limits in cardiac pacemakers - experimental validation on isolated heart
A Kink, Tallinn, Estonia

Influences on the parallel conductance
Camilla Carlsson, Huddinge, Sweden

Instrumentation for 12-lead ECG/ICG
Antti Haapalainen, Tampere, Finland

10:15 - 12:00  Thursday 12 June
Workshop 3: Evolution from Acute to Remodeled Infarction
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Moderator, Rory Childers, Chicago, USA

Influence of time to reperfusion on myocardial salvage.
Alex Barbagelata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Wireless transmission of the ECG to a handheld computer in acute myocardial infarction
Peter Clemmensen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Use of the 24-view ECG to determine the location of thrombotic coronary occlusion
Ulrika Pahlm-Webb, Greenville, USA

Spatial patterns of ST-segment shift during acute myocardial ischemia
B. Milan Horacek, Halifax, Canada

13:30 - 15:15  Thursday 12 June
Magnetocardiography 1     Return to Top
Chair Person: Jaakko Malmivuo  and  Riccardo Fenici

Introduction lecture: Clinical application of magnetocardiography
Jaakko Malmivuo, Tampere ,Finland

Combining MCG and ECG in classifying myocardial infarction
Juha Nousiainen, Tampere, Finland

First 36-channel system for clinical magnetocardiography in unshielded hospital laboratory for cardiac electrophysiology
Riccardo Fenici, Rome, Italy

Vortex currents in a torso phantom – Comparison of magnetic and electric signal strength
Jens Haueisen, Jena, Germany

Atrial signal abnormalities in paroxysmal lone atrial fibrillation detected by magnetocardiography
Raija Koskinen, Helsinki, Finland

Reproducibility of atrial electromagnetic signal analysis with multichannel magnetocardiography
Mika Lehto, Helsinki, Finland

13:30 - 15:15  Thursday 12 June
Recovery Phase in Exercise ECG Test
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Chair Persons: Jari Viik and Rami Lehtinen

Introduction lecture: Recovery ECG parameters and ST/HR hysteresis
Jari Viik and Rami Lehtinen, Tampere, Finland

Heart rate decline and ventricular ectopy during recovery from exercise: new and powerful markers of risk
Michael S. Lauer, Cleveland, USA

Evaluation of ST-segment/heart rate analysis during recovery phase in detection of coronary artery disease
Lars Brudin, Kalmar, Sweden

ROC analysis of ST amplitude and ST/HR difference in the recovery phase of the exercise electrocardiogram test in detection of myocardial ischemia
Håkan Kronander, Eskilstuna, Sweden

ST-segment and T-wave in recovery phase
Helena Hänninen, Helsinki, Finland

13:30 - 15:15  Thursday 12 June
Workshop 4: Multimodal Imaging of Myocardial Ischemia and Infarction
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Moderator, Jukka Nenonen, Helsinki, Finland

DECARTO imaging of acute myocardial ischemia and infarction
Ljuba Bacharova, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Serial magnetic resonance imaging during the acute and remodeling phases of infarction
Thomas Martin, Copenhagen, Denmark

Ischemia measurements in conjunction with simultaneous MRI studies
Rob MacLeod, Salt Lake City, USA

To and from myocardial activation and the body surface ECG
Galen Wagner, Durham, USA

15:45 - 17:30  Thursday 12 June
Magnetocardiography 2     Return to Top
Chair Persons: Jukka Nenonen  and  Jens Haueisen

Surface gradient analysis of atrial activation from magnetocardiographic maps
Jukka Nenonen, Helsinki, Finland

Principles of magnetocardiographic maps classification and use of this classification for CAD detection
Illya Chaikovsky, Essen, Germany

Value of magnetocardiography for the non-invasive diagnosis of coronary artery disease
Jan Lokies, Essen, Germany

Magnetocardiographic alterations associated with regional myocardial ischemia and reperfusion in swine
Dirk Dunker, Essen, Germany

Studying of the magnetocardiography indexes in CAD diagnosis
Victor Kozlovsky, Kiev, Ukraine

Finding of ROI intervals at cardiocycle for CAD study in magnetocardiography
Mykola Budnyk, Kiev, Ukraine

Magnetocardiography in cardiac transplantation: A case study
Dharsh Fernando, Baltimore, USA

15:45 - 17:30  Thursday 12 June
ECG Databases
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Chair Persons: Suave Lobodzinski  and  Catherine Chronaki

Introductory Lecture: New developments in creation, preservation and reuse of ECG knowledge bases
Suave Lobodzinski, Torrance, USA

From databases to knowledge spaces for cardiology
Piotr Augustyniak, Kraków, Poland

Digital ECG databases in the regional health information network of Crete
Catherine Chronaki, Crete, Greece

Design and implementation of a new XML ECG database management system
Glenn Guillemette, Oxnard, USA

Development of a new QT interval measurement algorithm and its validation using annotated ECG databases
Dieter Hayn, Graz, Austria

Exercise test database analysation software
Janne Kallio, Tampere, Finland

15:45 - 17:30  Thursday 12 June
ECG Criteria for Myocardial Infarction
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Chair Persons: John E. Madias  and  Rory Childers

Introductory lecture
John E. Madias, New York, USA

Anterior/inferior MI
Galen Wagner, Durham, USA

Right ventricular MI
Rory Childers, Chicago, USA

Posterior/lateral/high lateral MI
Peter Clemmensen, Copenhagen, Denmark

MI in association with intraventricular conduction delays, including RBBB, LBBB, and pacemaker-triggered ECG
Ronald Selvester, Long Beach, USA

Non ST-elevation / non-Q-wave MI / acute coronary syndromes / new guidelines on diagnostic criteria for MI
Bertil Lindahl, Uppsala, Sweden

Friday 13 June
8:30
Plenary Lecture: Clinical, genetic, molecular and cellular aspects of the Brugada syndrome     Return to Top
Charles Antzelevitch, Utica, USA

9:15 - 10:00
Poster presentations     Return to Top

Low variability of autocorrelation maps with intrathoracic heart position
Alexandru Corlan, San Donato Milanese, Italy

Characteristics of heart rate variability and Mayer waves during paroxysmal atrial tachycardia
Tadayoshi Hata, Toyoake, Japan

Reconstruction and clinical measurement of atrial excitation propagation
Oleg Skipa, Karlsruhe, Germany

Linear and non-linear parameters of heart rate variability in a high - performance world class sailor
Tanja Princi, Trieste, Italy

Effects of interelectrode distance on ECG potentials - Modelling approach vs. clinical data
Merja Puurtinen, Tampere, Finland

Heart rate variability in the patients with atrial flutter and after catheter ablation
Ruta Vaiciulyte, Kaunas, Lithuania

ECG P-wave analysis software
Juho Väisänen, Tampere Finland

Influence of the normal menstrual cycle on autonomic nervous activity and QT dispersion  
Machiko Yamamoto, Sendai, Japan

Effects of septal-infarction on QRS complex and T wave morphologies; Three dimensional computer model study
Naoko Zenda, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

The acute - nongenomic effect of thyroid hormones against calcium overload in newborn rat ventricular myocytes
Tova Zinman, Tel Aviv, Israel


10:15 - 12:00  Friday 13 June
Ion Channel Remodeling in Cardiac Arrhythmias     Return to Top
Chair Persons: Masayasu Hiraoka and Bülent Görenek

Introduction lecture
Masayasu Hiraoka, Tokyo, Japan

Gap junction remodeling and alterations of conduction properties in hypertrophied cardiac muscle
Haruo Honjo, Nagoya, Japan

Electro-mechanical abnormality in hereditary cardiomyopathic hamsters and ion channel remodeling
Cheng-I Lin, Taiwan

Differential electrical remodeling in compensated and decompensated hearts
Marc A Vos, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Possible cardiac electrical remodeling in diabetes mellitus
Andras Varro, Szeged, Hungary

Upregulation of KCNE1 underlies QT prolongation in CHF patients
Kaichiro Kamiya, Nagoya, Japan

Conclusion and closing remark
Bülent Görenek, Eskisehir, Turkey

10:15 - 12:00  Friday 13 June
Clinical Use of Holter Regordings
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Chair Persons: Luigi de Ambroggi  and  Wojciech Zareba

Introduction lecture: Clinical use of Holter recording
Luigi De Ambroggi, Milan, Italy

Drug-induced changes of ventricular repolarization: New incentives for quantifying T wave morphology
Wojciech Zareba, Rochester, USA

Ambulatory electrocardiographic evidence of transmural dispersion of repolarization in patients with congenital long QT syndrome
Matti Viitasalo, Helsinki, Finland

Non-conventional measurements from ECG holter recordings: Towards an improvement of diagnostic properties
Sergio Cerutti, Milan, Italy

Learning system for computer-aided ECG analysis based on support vector machines
Stanislaw Jankowski, Warsaw, Poland


10:15 - 12:00  Friday 13 June
Modelling Cardiac Electric Fields
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Chair Persons: Olaf Dössel  and  Robert L. Lux

Investigating heterogeneity in human heart with simulated transmural electrocardiograms
Gunnar Seemann, Karlsruhe, Germany

Co-localization of sodium-transporters in isolated cardiac cell membrane: A model study
Glenn Terje Lines, Lysaker, Norway

A computer model of sustained atrial fibrillation to study atrial electrograms
Vincent Jacquemet, Lausanne, Switzerland

The cable as a basis for a mechanoelecric whole heart model
Edward Vigmond, Calgary, Canada

A model for the passive cardiac conductivity
Jeroen G Stinstra, Salt Lake City, USA

13:30 - 15:15  Friday 13 June
ECG-LVH Criteria - How Do We Get Out of a Dead End?     Return to Top
Chair Persons: Pentti Rautaharju  and  Lasse Oikarinen

Introductory lecture: ECG-LVH: false concepts and more promising applications.
Pentti Rautaharju, Winston-Salem, USA

Evidence-based medicine and ECG-LVH.
Ljuba Bacharova, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Heart sound sensor incorporated in standard ECG recording improves LVH classification accuracy.
Robert Warner, Durham, USA

Isointegral map QRS in concentric left ventricular hypertrophy.
Katarína Kozlíková, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

LVH and ventricular repolarization.
Lasse Oikarinen, Helsinki, Finland

13:30 - 15:15  Friday 13 June
QT Interval Dynamics     Return to Top
Chair Persons: Pierre Maison-Blanche  and   Emanuela Locati

Introduction lecture: QT interval dynamics
Paul Kligfield, New York, USA

Repolarization dynamics in patients at risk for arrhythmias
Juha Perkiomäki, Oulu, Finland

Factors affecting QT dynamics during ambulatory monitoring
Pierre Maison-Blanche, Paris, France

QT interval measurement in the long QT syndromes: old problems and new perspectives
Emanuela Locati, Perugia, Italy

Repolarization dynamics
Marek Malik, London, England

13:30 - 15:15  Friday 13 June
Inverse Problem     Return to Top
Chair Persons: Adriaan van Oosterom  and  Thom Oostendorp

Introduction lecture: Source models in inverse electrocardiology
Adriaan van Oosterom, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Combining numerical and physiological constraints in inverse electrocardiography
Robert MacLeod, Salt Lake City, USA

Imaging epicardial potentials
Yoram Rudy, Cleveland, USA

Challenges of activation time imaging in the human atrium in the EP laboratory
Gerald Fischer, Innsbruck, Austria

Non-invasive estimation of the activation sequence of the heart in the presence of old myocardial infarctions: comparison to invasive patient data
Thom Oostendorp, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

15:45 - 17:30  Friday 13 June
Evidence-based Electrocardiology     Return to Top
Chair Persons: Ljuba Bacharova and Angelo de Paola

Introduction lecture: Evidence-based medicine: What lesson can be learned for electrocardiology
Ljuba Bacharova, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Electrophysiology-based electrocardiology
Angelo de Paola, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Q versus non-Q myocardial infarction
Paul Schweitzer, New York, USA

Sub-classification of MI
Yochai Birnbaum, Galveston, USA

 The evidence against QT dispersion
Gerard van Herpen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Identification of electrical source distribution defects: Model-based evidences
Krisztina Szakolczai and Gyorgy Kozmann, Budapest, Hungary

15:45 - 17:30  Friday 13 June
Cardiovascular Variability Signals     Return to Top
Chair Persons: Sergio Cerutti  and  Marek Malik

Changes in QT/RR hysteresis and variability by class III antiarrhythmic drugs
Marek Malik, London, England

ECG averaging based on Hausdorff metric
Leonid Fainzilberg, Kiev, Ukraine

A new simple algorithm for heart rate variability analysis in  patients with obstructive sleep apnea and normal controls
Abdulnasir Hossen, Muscat, Oman

Heart rate variability responses to skin incision in  0.8 MAC sevoflurane anaesthesia
Ilkka Korhonen, Tampere, Finland

An echocardiographic approach to the analysis of the variability in cardiac cycle phases
Enrico G. Caiani, Milan, Italy

Applicability of different cardiovascular signal evaluation methods
Timo Mäkikallio, Oulu, Finland

15:45 - 17:30  Friday 13 June
Modelling and Simulation     Return to Top
Chair Persons: Robert MacLeod  and  Milan Tysler

Recognition of the myocardial ischemic lesion on the basis of ECG-mapping data
Leonid Titomir, Moscow, Russia

The determination of integral epicardial potential maps by non-invasive method
Alina Czerwinska, Warsaw, Poland

Creatig the 3D thorax model with reconstruction of contours of body organs used in determining  the epicardial maps 
Marek Doros, Warsaw, Poland

Model study of assessment of local heart repolarization changes by several ECG methods
Milan Tysler, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Theoretical study of modulated parasystole with feedback as a possible mechanism for cyclic bursts of ventricular premature contractions
Noriaki Ikeda, Sagamihara, Japan

ECGSIM, an interactive teaching tool linking transmembrane potentials to electrograms and ECGs
Adriaan van Oosterom, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Saturday 14 June
8:30
Plenary Lecture: R-R interval dynamics preceding the onset of life-threatening arrhythmias     Return to Top
Heikki Huikuri, Oulu, Finland

9:15 - 10:00
Poster presentations     Return to Top

The effect of ischemia size to body surface maps in realistic volume conductor model
Tuukka Arola, Tampere, Finland

A Prerequisite for spontaneous atrial fibrillation or flutter in patients with acute myocardial infarction
Wangden Carson, Toronto, Canada

T-type calcium current in electrical activity of cardiomyocytes isolated from rabbit pulmonary vein
Yao-Chang Chen, Taipei, Taiwan

Dependence of the ventricular gradient beat-to-beat variability upon severity of ischemic heart disease syndromes
Lidas Gargasas, Kaunas, Lithuania

Effect of the inhibition of the IKur on the action potential shape in isolated human right atrial preparations and computer simulations
Otto Hála, Szeged, Hungary

Contribution of Conduction Delay Within the Right Ventricular Outflow Tract to Arrhythmogenesis in the Brugada Syndrome. A three-dimensional computer simulation study
Masahiko Kondo, Yokohama, Japan

Does left atrial wall strain influence on SA ECG and SA IEGM time domain parameters?
Andrzej Kutarski, Lublin, Poland

Intraatrial a wave high gain SA IEGM - The comparison with conventional method
Andrzej Kutarski, Lublin, Poland

Effect of age and sex on time domain signal-averaged ECG in normal Taiwanese
Chun-Chen Lin, Taipei, Taiwan

New parameters in the spectral analysis for the detection of ventricular late potentials
Chun-Chen Lin, Taipei, Taiwan

A new method for the quantitative detection of the extension and change of the electrical potential loss. Possible clinical applications.
Mihaly Medvegy, Budapest, Hungary

Action potential prolongation and contractile dysfunction in the left atrium of the old myopathic Syrian hamster
Hsin-Pao Pan, Taipei, Taiwan

Late potentials and ventricular ectopy in patients with and without left bundle branch block and heart failure
Yavor Peychev, Varna, Bulgaria

History of atrial fibrillation and a risk of atrioventricular block appearance in patients with sinus node disease
Piotr Ruciński, Lublin, Poland

Application of wavelet transform for analysis of QRS complex in intraventricular conduction disturbance
Hisa Shimojima, Yokohama City, Japan

ST-T isointegral patterns in the patients with single-vessel CAD
Małgorzata Sobieszczańska, Wroclaw, Poland

Simulation system of arrhythmia and artificial pacemaker using ActiveX control
Akihiro Takeuchi, Sagamihara, Japan

Changes in myocardial repolarization and connexin-43 are involved in susceptibility of hypertrophic heart to low K+-induced ventricular fibrillation
Narcis Tribulova, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

10:15 - 12:00  Saturday 14 June
ECG Methods in Risk Stratification - Joint Session of the ISE and ISHNE     Return to Top
Chair Persons: Wojciech Zareba  and  Ryszard Piotrowicz

Introduction lecture: Prognostic significance of a standard 12-lead ECG
Wojciech Zareba, Rochester, NY, USA

Risk stratification using novel approaches for analyzing ventricular arrhythmias
Ryszard Piotrowicz, Warsaw, Poland

T wave complexity: diagnostic and prognostic significance
Luigi De Ambroggi, Milan, Italy

Nonlinear dynamics of heart rate and repolarization
Juha Perkiömäki, Oulu, Finland

Early and complete ST segment resolution: Strong and independent predictor of event free survival 
Cafer Zorkun, Krakow, Poland

10:15 - 12:00  Saturday 14 June
Arrhythmia and CAD     Return to Top
Chair Persons: Jaakko Malmivuo  and  Jerome Liebman

Fibrillation and self-defibrillation of the heart in deep body cooling
Vladimir Kobrin, Moscow, Russia

Vectorcardiographic changes in cardiac memory induced by ventricular pacing in man
Liliane Wecke, Stockholm, Sweden

Atrial resynchronization effectiveness in the spotlight of signal averaged ECG and IEGM P wave analysis
Andrzej Kutarski, Lublin, Poland

Isolated left circumflex coronary artery disease
Georg Couturier, New York, USA

T axis, QT dispersion, Selvester scoring system: A comparison of sperimental electrocardiographic indices of previous AMI
Deodato Assanelli, Brescia, Italy

A new method to identify Brugada syndrome in asymptomatic patients with normal 12-lead ECG
Carlos Alberto Pastore, Sao Paulo, Brazil

10:15 - 12:00  Saturday 14 June
Dynamic Modelling of the Thorax     Return to Top
Chair Persons: Jari Hyttinen  and  R. Martin Arthur

Introduction lecture
Jari Hyttinen, Tampere, Finland

Methods for using ultrasound to generate a heart surface for electrocardiographic inverse problems
Jason W. Trobaugh, St. Louis, USA

Effects of reducing the full-body surface to a torso model in forward and inverse electrocardiography
R. Martin Arthur, St. Louis, USA

BioPSE case study: Modeling, simulation and visualization of three dimensional mouse heart propagation
David Weinstein, Salt Lake City, USA

Model of heart shape cyclic variation for Foucault cardiography simulations
Sergei Malchenko, Tartu, Estonia

13:30 - 15:15  Saturday 14 June
Autonomic Markers of Sudden Cardiac Death     Return to Top
Chair Persons: Heikki Huikuri  and  Marek Malik

Introduction lecture
Heikki Huikuri, Oulu, Finland

Heart rate variability
Marek Malik, London, England

Heart rate turbulence
Georg Schmidt, Munich, Germany

Baroreflex sensitivity
Thomas Klingenheben, Frankfurt, Germany

T-wave dispersion: Old and new
Michael R. Franz, Washington, USA

13:30 - 15:15  Saturday 14 June
Ventricular Repolarization     Return to Top
Chair Persons: Yoram Rudy  and  Masayasu Hiraoka

Introduction lecture: Ionic basis of repolarization and ECG waveforms
Yoram Rudy, Cleveland, USA

ST segment and T wave manifestations of the long QT syndrome
Wojciech Zareba, Rochester, NY, USA

ST segment changes in the Brugada syndrome
Masayasu Hiraoka, Tokyo, Japan

Magnetocardiography of ventricular repolarization
Petri Korhonen, Helsinki, Finland

The U Wave in the ECG: A new view on its genesis
Henk J. Ritsema van Eck, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

13:30 - 15:15  Saturday 14 June
Body Surface ECG Mapping 1   Return to Top
Chair Persons: B. Milan Horacek  and  Robert L. Lux

Body-surface potential maps can identify substrate for ventricular arrhythmias
B. Milan Horacek, Halifax, Canada

QRST nondipolar content revisited
Mark Potse, Montreal, Canada

Detection of minor potential losses in non-Q-wave myocardial infarction by body-surface potential mapping
Istvan Preda, Budapest, Hungary

Myocardial infarction in body-surface potential mapping: Temporal and spatial analysis of the depolarization wave
Paula Vesterinen, Helsinki, Finland

Principal components analysis: An old but powerful tool for ECG analysis
Robert L. Lux, Salt Lake City, USA

15:45 - 17:30  Saturday 14 June
Supraventricular Tachyarrhythmias Involving the AV Node     Return to Top
Chair Persons: Pekka Raatikainen  and   Hans Kottkamp

Atrioventricular nodal tachycardia: mechanisms and treatment
Hans Kottkamp, Leipzig, Germany

Left atrial input to the atrioventricular node
Mario Gonzalez, Gainesville, USA

The role of electoanatomical mapping in the treatment of supraventricular tachycardias involving the AV node
Anders Kirstein-Pedersen, Aarhus, Denmark

New pharmacological approaches in the treatment of supraventricular tachycardias involving the AV node
Pekka Raatikainen, Oulu, Finland

15:45 - 17:30  Saturday 14 June
Arrhytmias in Pediatric ECG     Return to Top
Chair Persons: Jerome Liebman  and  Konrad Brockmeier

Introduction lecture: Some issues related to non arrhythmia electrocardiography in pediatrics
Jerome Liebman, Cleveland, USA

Hereditary arrhythmias in children
Konrad Brockmeier, Cologne, Germany

Intraatrial reenterant tachycardia in the fontan population
Ian Law, Iowa City, USA

Figure 8 post-operative atrial tachycardias
Parvin Dorostkar, Cleveland, USA

15:45 - 17:30  Saturday 14 June
Body Surface ECG Mapping 2    Return to Top
Chair Persons: Markku Mäkijärvi  and  B. Milan Horacek

Reduction in the number of electrodes for body surface potential mapping
Yasuaki Teramachi, Sagamihara, Japan

Residual ST-T ECG mapping abnormalities and late potential parameters after coronary intervention
Slavomira Filipova, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Evaluation of ECG lead selection and reconstruction by thorax model and statistical analysis of ECG data
Takano Noriyuki, Tampere, Finland

 

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