Electrocardiology ’87 : : Proceedings of the 14th International Congress on Electrocardiology, Berlin, August 17–20th, 1987 / / ed. by Ernst Schubert, Dietrich Romberg.

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• HerausgeberIn: Romberg, Dietrich,; Schubert, Ernst,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: Reprint 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR/ N. Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften, Technik ; 1988, 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (688 p.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- In memoriam VILÉM LAUFBERGER -- CONTENTS -- PLENARY LECTURES -- One Century Electrocardiography In man -- My first 25 years in electrocardiology -- Gating properties of cardiac sodium channels -- Computer Modelling in Cardiac Electrophysiologic -- Body Surface Potential Mapping in Children -- Features of ventricular septal activation in the cardiac electric -- Mechanisms of antiarrhythmics -- Clinical Application of Magnetocardiographic Measurements -- Comparison of mathematical and geometrical approach in spacecraft and in our triaxicardiometric (Polarcardiographic) programs -- YOUNG INVESTIGATORS AWARD -- Transcavitary Conduction and the Mean Frontal Q R S Axis -- localization of accessory atrioventricular connections and origin of ventricular tachycardia in patients with malignant tachyarrhythmias by electrocardiographic, electrophysiologic and scintigraphic techniques -- Correlation between biomagnetic localization of primary cardiac sources obtained by different models and radiographic-echocardiographic images -- Functional significance of a negative U wave in the exercise electrocardiogram -- COMPONENTS OF THE HEART RATE POWER SPECTRUM DURING INDIVIDUAL SLEEP STAGES AND THEIR ASSOCIATION TO-CENTRAL HEMODYNAMICS -- Nondipolarity Estimation - an Additional Diagnostic Information in Myocardial Infarction ? -- FUNDAMENTALS OF CARDIAC EXITATION -- Transient outward current in mammalian ventricular fibres and its role in the control of action potential configuration -- Bioelectric activity of frog atrium cells with non-typical impulse activity -- Antiarrhythmic effects of Ca channel blockers on canine Purkinje fibers -- Intercellular interaction In frog heart -- Technical aspects of intercellular electrotonic interaction investigation in the myocardium -- Extracellular K+and Ca 2+ actlvities (a K+ 0,a0Ca2+ ) at the region of suction electrode placed on the ventral wall of frog ventricular epicardium during the development of monophasic action potential (MAP) caused by the negative pressure -- The histology of the atrioventricular nodal cells in the human heart -- Structural and functional organization of atrioventricular conducting system in the avian heart -- MODELLING OF HEART ACTIVITY -- Modelling of isopotential and field strength distribution in the human thorax -- Theoretical analysis of magnetic fields resulting from heart activity -- Computer Simulation of the Electrical and Magnetical Heart Field -- DECARTO: A new concept for analyzing and presenting orthogonal electrocardiographic signals -- Computer Simulation of Cardiac Excitation in the Hypertrophic Heart -- A Study of the Diagnostic Informativity of BSPM Based on a Multipolar Cardiac Source Model -- The usefulness of multipoles in differentiation of human cardiac electric fields -- A Computer Model of Cardiac Rhythm and Heart - Pacemaker Interface -- Higher Degree Multidipolar Components Sum on the VCG Spherical Surface -- Modelling and simulation of the ventricular excitation and repolarization in relation to the heart mechanics -- Dynamic Anisotropy of Atrioventricular Nodal Conduction? Computer Modelling Experiments -- Instability of Multipole Model of Cardiogenerator Caused by Measurement Errors -- BODY SURFACE MAPPING-THEORY AND METHODS -- Body Surface Isopotential Maps Properties after the Transfer Coefficient Unification -- Electromagnetic field of heart contraction kinetics. Electromagnetic kin etocardiography: theory and clinical application -- Data acquisition for ECG-mapping -- System for clinical mapping and modelling the heart generator -- How to image the differences between CEF-norm and actual condition of cardiac electric field using threedimensional isopotential maps without colour graphics ? -- A BSPM Infrastructure: Product Description and Applications -- Spread of the atrial activation on the chest surface in healthy girls -- Application of a bedside Microcomputer System far ECG Mapping after Myocardial Infarction -- The Transfer Coefficient Unification Method for the Body Surface Potential Distribution Processing -- Automatic QRS Onset Detection of BSPM by Spatial and Temporal Approach -- Experimental Investigation of Cardiac Electric Field -- BODY SURFACE MAPPING-CLINICAL APPLICATION -- An analysis of multiple ECG leads in the patients with posterior myocardial infarction -- RECOGNITION OF MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIC AREAS BY COMPUTERIZED STRESS PRECORDIAL MAPPING -- Electrocardiographic isopotential exercise and oesophageal stimulation maps in the diagnosis of myocardial ischaemia -- Usefulness of the QRST integral maps to detact vulnerability to malignant arrhythmias in patients with old myocardial infarction. -- Nondipolarity of QRST area map and the ventricular arrhythmias following myocardial infarction -- Characteristic Features of the Cardioelectric Fields Mapped in Patients with Essential and Renal Hypertension -- USE OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS TO DEVELOP NOVEL APPROACHES TO ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS -- Specific features of the integral cardiac topograms in the patients with myocarditis -- Estimation of the dipolar content of total body surface potential distribution in WPW syndrome -- MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY -- High resolution magnetocardiography -- The Influence Of Inhomogeneities On ECG And MCG Mapping -- On basic models for magnetocardiographic studies -- The DC SQUID SYSTEM 3 - a new tool for investigations of magnetic activities of the heart -- Electromagnetic kinetocardiography. Measurement technique, hardware and software -- VECTORCARDIOGRAPHY -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE 12-LEAD STANDARD ECG AND THE XYZ VECTOR LEADS -- Planarity of the spatial QRS loop. Comparative analysis in normals, infarcts, ventricular hypertrophies and intraventricular conduction defects -- New routine VCG-analysis with high diagnostic power in LVH and RVH -- Vectorcardiographic identification of anteroapical infarction -- Normal areas of Frank VCG instantaneous vector end-points - comparison with the VA program evaluation -- Shape of the QRS loop and the stability of transformation coefficients between two different VCG lead systems -- VCG study of the S-T segment changes in pts with MI treated or not with i.v. Streptoki nase -- DEVELOPMENTAL ELECTROCARDIOLOGY -- Experimental Simulation of the Postnatal Decrease of Pulmonary Vascular Resistance: Effect on the ECG -- Conception and results of neonatal electrocardiographic screening -- Some aspects of the body surface mapping and echocardiographic findings in healthy children -- FRANK ECG of adolescents -- Prevalence and clinical relevance of different physiological variants of right ventricular conduction in infancy, childhood and adolescence -- May primary septal hypertrophic cardiomyopathy be responsible for sudden infant death syndrome ? Relevancy of electrovectorcardiographie investigation. -- Electrocardiography in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy -- ECG of Postnatally Growing Guinea Pigs with Carbon Monoxide Induced Cardiomegaly -- Some quantitative parameters of the QRS complex obtained from body surface potential maps of normal children -- Swimming Exercise in Postnatally Growing Hats: Influence on Various ECG Parameters -- Experimental body surfact isopotential mapping in healthy, swimming and sympathectomized young rats -- EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOLOGY -- Prognostic value of different exercise-ECG-signs, ten years follow-up.

The Erfurt Intervention Study -- Improved Diagnosis of Cardiac Dysrhythmias During Stress-Tests Using Bipolar Oesophageal ECG -- The importance of- BOG to determine the autonomic nervous control of cardiac action during thermal stress -- Electrocardiographic Changes in Men Under Hypokinesia and Physical Exercise -- FACILITIES OF EGG TELEMETRY IN PHYSICAL MEDICINE -- Modified ECG Functional Teat for Prognosis of Rehabilitation Effect in Patients after Myocardial Infarction -- Comparison of exercise precordial mapping and exercise thallium scintigraphy in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease -- Frequency analysis of ECG during bycicle exercise in patients with ischaemic heart disease -- Significance of the ascending type of ST-segment depression during diagnostic exercise ECG In patients with ischaemic heart disease -- DIAGNOSTIC OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION -- Effect of infarct location on the incidence of silent Myocardial ischemia in patients with transmural Myocardial infarction -- Discriminant body surface potential map patterns in anterior and inferior myocardial infarction -- Correlation g>f myocardial infarction development character and disturbances of coronary blood flow -- Contribution of the on-line computer ECG mapping to the rapid diagnostics of myocardial Infarction size and Localization -- VCG semi-quantitative evaluation of infarcted area in the acute phase of MI and after 6 months of follow-up: clinical and prognostic correlations -- ECG Patterns in Subjects with Self-Reported Old Myocardial Infarctions Results from a Cross-Sectional Population Study -- Repolarization waye abnormalities and symptomatic coronary artery disease -- Transtelephonic 12-lead ECG service centers in the Netherlands. -- ECG criteria and thrombolysis in acute myocardial infarction -- The Quantitation of Regional Ischemia Criteria from a Fine Grid Computer Simulation of QRS-T -- Comparison of vectorcardiographs,electrocardiographic,ventriculographic, echocardiographic and coronarographic findings in patients with stenocardia -- Diagnostic possibilities of electroc ardiotopography and mathematical model in myocardial infarction -- Electrocardiotopography value in myocardial infarction and stenocardia -- ECG changes and load tolerance in patients after myocardial infarction -- RHYTHM AND RHYTHM DISTURBANCE -- Circadian variation of the sinus arrhythmia -- On the characteristic frequency of sinus arrhythmia -- HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY AND MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION: A CHRONOBIOLOGICAL STUDY OF HEART RATE AND PREMATURE BEATS -- Measurement of periodic heart rate variability for investigation of the vegetative level during the induction of anaesthesia -- The influence of beta-adrenergic blockers propranolol and talinolol on ECG in young men -- "Warming-up" Phenomenon Differential Diagnosis and Quantitative Study -- The comparative study of 24-hour ECG monitoring in patients with different forms of angina pectoris and myocardial infarction -- Behavior of the QT -interval at multiple praecordial ECG-leads in healthy persons and patients with different heart diseases -- Bundle branch reentrant tachycardia treated by transvenous catheter ablation of the right bundle branch -- Clinical Studies on Post-Tachycardia Syndrome -- Pacemaker Inverse Problem Computer Supported Diagnosis of Electrocardiograms of Paced Patients -- Optimal setting of programmable cardiac pacemakers by means of radionuclide ventriculography -- Differentiation of atrial rhythms by differentially amplified ECG -- Controlled antiarrhythmic therapy -for recurrent supraventricular arrhythmias by means of repeated transesophageal pacing -- Effects of cardiac glycosides on electrical repolarization during sinusrhythm and atrials pacing in normals and in patients with coronary artery diseases -- Are the alcoholic arrhythmias related to alcoholic cardiomypaty? -- Serum potassium level in relation to malignant arrhythmias in acute myocardial infarction -- Prognosis in ventricular tachyarrhythmia patients with coronary artery disease -- The control of heart rhythm in a tilt table test -- The Electrophysiologic Criteria for the Selection of Antiarrhythmic Therapy -- Cardiac rhythm and haemodynamics disturbances in patients with sick sinus syndrome and VTI pacemakers implanted -- Analysis of Longtime ECG by Means of Microcomputer Including Recognition of P-waves and ST-T-segment -- Use of Microcardioanalyzer for Individualized Drug Selection in Cardiology -- ASSESSMENT OF THE CARDIAC FUNCTIONAL STATUS -BASH) ON LONG-TERM RHYTHM3GRAM RECORDING DURING SLEEP -- Autonomic nervous system control of heart rata in juvenile hypertension -- Contribution of ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring for the diagnosis of patients with syncopa -- ECG AND CARDIAC MECHANICS CONDUCTION PROBLEMS -- Correlations between SCG and echographical changes in 345 cases of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy -- C.CARP -- ST elevation during PTCA: role of collaterals in sudden coronary occlusion -- Complete or Incomplete right bundle branch block after coronary artery bypass surgery -- New aspects of classifying intraventricular conduction disturbances -- Influence of quinidine versus procainamide on the QT interval -- S-A. Blook, Sinus Parasystole, S-A Dissociation Semantics of Terms -- The differentiation of incomplete right bundle branch block /inc.RBBB/ and right ventricular strain /RVS/ by the spatial angular velocity -- HIS-ECG LATE POTENTIALS -- Late ventricular potentials and their representation on the Instant topograms -- R.Z*AmiroY -- Frequency and significancy of ventricular late potentials in patients with myocardial infarction with and without fibrinolysis -- Intracardiac electrophysiologic testing in the postmyocardial infarction period -- Multiple malformations of the conduction system of the heart in patients with paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardias -- The first derivative of the electrocardiogram -- Reliability of noninvasive His bundle recordings -- Role of AV system electrophysiologic changes in the pathogenesis of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation -- Is the HV interval dependent on the recording site of His bundle electrogram? -- System for detection of micropotentiels -- The Clinical Evaluation of the Late Potentials in Patients with Ventricular Arrhythmias -- Escape pacemaker characteristics following catheter-induced ablation of the atrioventricular junction -- Registration of cardiac micropotentiale from body surface - a possibility to diagnose myocarditide -- AUTHORS INDEX