Cardiac Arrhythmias 1999: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Cardiac Arrhythmias (Venice, 5-8 October 1999)

Lectures.- Sudden Ischemic Cardiac Death: The Clinical Approach.- Molecular Pathology of Cardiac Diseases Liable to Cause Sudden Death.- Atrial Fibrillation.- Are All Paroxysms of Atrial Fibrillation Focally Initiated?.- How Common Is a Genetic Origin of Atrial Fibrillation?.- Lone Atrial Fibrillation: What Is the Anatomical and the Electrophysiological Substrate?.- Atrial Fibrillation in Apparently Idiopathic Cardiomyopathy: The Chicken or the Egg?.- Cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation Today: When and Why?.- Acute Conversion of Recent-Onset Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter: Class IC or Class III Drugs?.- Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy Before Electrical Cardioversion of Atrial Fibrillation: Is It Really Useful?.- Low-Energy Internal Defibrillation: How Many Patients Are Still in Sinus Rhythm After 1 Year?.- How Useful Is Transoesophageal Echocardiography During Electrical Cardioversion for Predicting Long-Term Sinus Rhythm Maintenance?.- Atrial Stunning Following Sinus Rhythm Restoration: Which Mechanism, Time Course and Implication for Anticoagulation?.- Drug Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation: Are Novel Agents More Effective Than the Old Ones?.- Atrial Pacing for Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation: Where and How to Stimulate?.- Implantable Atrial Defibrillator: What are the Results of Initial Experience?.- Implantable Atrial Defibrillator: What Are the Future Perspectives?.- Implantable Atrial Defibrillator: Why not a Patient-Activated Drug Delivery System?.- Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: How Should Patients Be Selected?.- An Anatomical Approach to Curing Atrial Fibrillation: Pulmonary Vein Isolation with Through-the-Balloon Ultrasound Ablation.- Ablate and Pace Therapy or AV Junction Modification for Medically Refractory Atrial Fibrillation?.- Atrial Fibrillation After Heart Surgery: How to Identify and Protect Predisposed Patients?.- Other Supraventricular Tachycardias.- Clinically Documented but Not Inducible Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia: To Ablate or Not To Ablate?.- Permanent Junctional Reentry Tachycardia: When to Ablate, Where and With Which Results?.- How to Predict and Avoid Complete AV Block Complicating Radiofrequency Ablation of AV Nodal Slow Pathway.- Ablation of Antero-Septal and Intermediate Septal Accessory Pathways: How Safe Is It? How Can One Minimize the Risk of AV Block?.- Acute Treatment of Atrial Flutter: Ibutilide, Transesophageal Pacing, or DC Shock?.- Chronic Atrial Flutter: What Is the Risk of Thromboembolism?.- Common and Uncommon Atrial Flutter: What Are the Long-Term Results and Complications of Radiofrequency Ablation?.- Atrial Tachycardia Originating from Crista Terminalis.- "Incisional" Reentrant Atrial Tachycardia: How to Prevent and Treat It?.- Treatment of Tachyarrhythmias Using Cryothermal Energy.- Ventricular Arrhythmias.- Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation: Is the Prognosis Always Bad?.- The Syndrome of Right Bundle Branch Block, ST Segment Elevation in V1 to V3 and Sudden Death. Are Asymptomatic patients at high risk for sudden death?.- Is Atrial Vulnerability Increased In Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy?.- Is Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Tachycardia a Minor Form of Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy?.- Electrophysiologic Mechanisms of Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia/Torsade de Pointes in the Presence of Normal or Long QT.- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Long-QT Syndrome: What is Their Relationship?.- Brugada and Long QT Syndrome Are Two Different Diseases: True or False?.- Effect of ?-Blocker Therapy on the Frequency and Type of Cardiac Events in Patients with the Hereditary Long QT Syndrome.- Gene Therapy for Long QT Syndrome: Fact or Fiction?.- An Overview of Secondary Prevention Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Trials: AVID, CIDS and CASH.- What Has Been the Impact on Clinical Practice of Recently Published Postevent ICD Trials?.- Is the Implantable Defibrillator Cost-effective?.- What Is the Best Algorithm to Discrimina...