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Boris Moiseevich Tsukerman − The Founder of the Electroimpulse Therapy Method for the Treatment of Supraventricular Arrhythmia

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The main biographic details and scientific activity of the Russian electrophysiologist B. M. Tsukerman (1920-2007), who made an enormous contribution to the development and clinical introduction of the electroimpulse method of treating supraventricular arrhythmias, are presented.

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  1. I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

    A. L. Syrkin

  2. Institute of Biomedical Systems, National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET), Zelenograd, Moscow, Russia

    B. B. Gorbunov & S. V. Selishchev

  3. V. A. Negovsky Research Institute of General Reanimatology, Federal Research and Clinical Center of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology, Moscow, Russia

    V. A. Vostrikov

  4. Scientific-Manufacturing Association REMA, Lviv, Ukraine

    I. V. Venin

  5. A. V. Vishnevskii National Medical Research Center for Surgery, Moscow, Russia

    A. Sh. Revishvili

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Syrkin, A.L., Gorbunov, B.B., Vostrikov, V.A. et al. Boris Moiseevich Tsukerman − The Founder of the Electroimpulse Therapy Method for the Treatment of Supraventricular Arrhythmia. Biomed Eng 53, 222–226 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10527-019-09913-0

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