Prevention of Tachyarrhythmias with Cardiac Pacing

Section I: Experimental Data and New Concepts:; The Electrophysiological Basis for the Prevention of Tachyarrhythmias; New Insights into the Mechanisms and Management of the Long QT Syndromes with Emphasis on the Role of Heart Rate; Subthreshold Conditioning Stimuli Inhibit Human Atrial and Ventricular Myocardium; Section II: Clinical Applications: Atrium:; Modes of Onset of Spontaneous Episodes of Atrial Fibrillation: Implications for the Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation by Pacing; Prevention of Permanent and Paroxysmal Atrial Tachyarrhythmias with Permanent Cardiac Pacing: The Role of Pacing Mode; Does Rate-Responsiveness Contribute to Arrhythmia Prevention in Atrial-Based Pacemakers? Prevention of Vagally Mediated Atrial Tachyrhythmia by Permanent Atrial Pacing; Biatrial Synchronous Pacing: A New Approach to Prevent Arrhythmias in Patients with Atrial Conduction Block; Section III: Clinical Applications: Ventricle:; Spontaneous Onset of VT and VF Episodes: Implications for Prevention with Cardiac Pacing; Cardiac Pacing in the Long QT Syndrome; Prevention of "Long-Cycle-Short-Cycle" Phenomenon with Cardiac Pacing; Section IV: New Diagnostic and Therapeutic Functions:; The Compensatory Pause Prevention Algorithm: Preliminary Results at the Ventricular Level; Diagnostic Functions in Implantable Cardiac Pacemakers; Combined Prevention Algorithms and Multisite Pacing with Antitachycardia Pacing and Defibrillation in Future Generations of Implantable Anyiarrhythmic Devices; Index