Philippe Coumel: a founding father of modern arrhythmology
| Autor: | Hein J.J. Wellens, Jerónimo Farré |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Tachycardia
Literature medicine.medical_specialty Bundle branch block business.industry VA conduction Electric Countershock Arrhythmias Cardiac History 20th Century medicine.disease Europe Electrocardiography CARDIAC THERAPY Physiology (medical) Internal medicine Cardiology Medicine Humans medicine.symptom Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology. 6(5) |
| ISSN: | 1099-5129 |
| Popis: | On March 18, 2004, Philippe Coumel passed away in Paris. At that time European cardiology lost one of its most creative sons. In the late 1960s and early 1970s Philippe Coumel not only introduced the technique of programmed electrical stimulation of the heart [1], simultaneously with but independent of Durrer and co-workers in Amsterdam, but also described criteria to determine the mechanisms and pathways of AV junctional reciprocating tachycardias [1–5]. By reporting findings such as (1) the paradoxical capture and (2) prolongation of tachycardia VA conduction times during bundle branch block ipsilateral … |
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