Einthoven 2002, 100 Years of Electrocardiography
Schalij, Martin J.
- 01 januari 2002
- 9789090159126
Samenvatting:
Einthoven 2002
100 Years of Electrocardiography
Edited by
Martin J. Schalij, Michiel J. Janse, Adriaan van Oosterom,
Hein J.J. Wellens & Ernst E. van der Wall
Hundred years have gone by since Einthoven published his first paper on the
human electrocardiogram. As a Professor of physiology at Leiden University, he
had designed the string galvanometer, the first practically usable instrument to
record the human electrocardiogram. He had achieved such amazing technical
perfection that many modern electrocardiographs do not attain equally reliable
and undistorted recordings. By meticulous studies, with a clear physiological
insight and strong determination, he was able to demonstrate convincingly the
significance and potential of electrocardiography. The importance of his work
was recognized in 1924 when he was rewarded the Nobel Prize.
During the past hundred years the importance of electrocardiography has grown
to such an extent that the ECG has become the cornerstone in diagnosis and
treatment of diseases of the heart.
To commemorate Einthoven's accomplishments, the Department of Cardiology
of the Leiden University Medical Center organized a congress Einthoven 2002;
100 Years of Electrocardiography which was held June 9th - 11th 2002 in Leiden,
the Netherlands. This book forms the proceedings of this congress and brings,
in seventy one chapters, the contributions of many experts in cardiac
electrophysiology and computerized electrocardiography. Topics include
arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia, body surface mapping, sudden
cardiac death, computerized electrocardiography, electrocardiographic lead
systems, and mechanisms of reentry. Besides these topics presented in detail by
leading authorities, several chapters are dedicated to historical overviews. In this
way, the book should be of great interest to the more generalist reader as well as
to the more specialist reader.
The Einthoven Foundation