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
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
Olaf Dössel, Karlsruhe, Germany
Thursday 12 June
8:30
Rijlant Lecture: Evolution of electrocardiographic research.
Holy doctorines and heretic concepts
Pentti Rautaharju, Winston-Salem, USA
9:15 - 10:00
Poster presentations
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Charles Antzelevitch, Utica, USA
9:15 - 10:00
Poster presentations
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
Heikki Huikuri, Oulu, Finland
9:15 - 10:00
Poster presentations
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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