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Pediatric and Fundamental Electrocardiography pp 285–313Cite as

Esophageal Electrocardiography

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Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 56))

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Esophageal electrocardiography was born in 1906 when Cremer [1], motivated by a desire to approach the cardiac electric field more closely, recruited a sword-swallower as the subject of his first experiment. A 28-year lapse occurred before six normal subjects were recorded by Lieberson and Liberson [2] who utilized fluoroscopy in order to locate a silver esophageal electrode posterior to the heart. Brown [3] in 1936, motivated by a current interest in unconventional or nonstandard leads for exploring sites of cardiac electrical activity not revealed by standard leads, investigated the esophageal lead as a possibility for a semi-direct or “exploring” lead. Brown undertook an extensive study devoted to testing the theoretical validity and practical adaptation of the esophageal lead to both normal and diseased human subjects.

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  1. Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, 2101 Adelbert Road, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106, USA

    Jerome Liebman M.D. (Professor of Pediatrics) (Professor of Pediatrics)

  2. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 27706, USA

    Robert Plonsey Ph.D. (Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Physiology) (Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Physiology)

  3. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106, USA

    Yoram Rudy Ph.D. (Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering) (Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering)

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Jenkins, J.M., Arzbaecher, R. (1987). Esophageal Electrocardiography. In: Liebman, J., Plonsey, R., Rudy, Y. (eds) Pediatric and Fundamental Electrocardiography. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 56. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2323-5_14

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