1. Interventional Electrophysiology at the Millenium

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 5

2. Impact of Recent Molecular Studies on Evaluation of Ventricular Arrhythmias

   • Dan M. Roden

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 16

3. Changing Concepts of Electrophysiology Testing for Ventricular Arrhythmias

   • Masood Akhtar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 19

4. Catheter Mapping of Spontaneous and Induced Atrial Fibrillation in Man

   • Sanjeev Saksena
   • Amit Shankar
   • Ryszard B. Krol

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 28

5. Atrial Fibrillation: Role of Arrhythmogenic Foci

   • Pierre Jaïs
   • Dipen C. Shah
   • Jacques Clémenty

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 37

6. Secondary Prevention of Sudden Death

   • Riccardo Cappato
   • Karl-Heinz Kuck

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 44

7. The MUSTT Study: Evaluating Testing and Treatment

   • Helmut U. Klein
   • Sven Reek

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 50

8. Amiodarone: Maximising Survival Benefit with Empiric or Guided Therapy

   • G. Steinbeck
   • U. Dorwarth
   • E. Hoffmann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 55

9. The Role of EP-Guided Therapy in Ventricular Arrhythmias: Beta-Blockers, Sotalol, and ICD's

   • Alessandro Capucci
   • Daniela Aschieri
   • Giovanni Quinto Villani

   OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 63

10. Combining Antiarrhythmic Drugs and Implantable Devices Therapy: Benefits and Outcome

    • Massimo Santini
    • Claudio Pandozi
    • Renato Ricci

    OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 68

11. Lessons Learnt from Multisite Pacing for AF Management—Technical Challenges

    • Rahul Mehra
    • Bill Kaemmerer
    • Stephanie Fitts

    OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 79

12. Electrophysiologic Assessment in Selecting Patients for Multisite Atrial Pacing

    • Philippe Delfaut
    • Sanjeev Saksena

    OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 85

13. Developing Clinical Indication for Multisite Pacing

    • L. Kappenberger
    • X. Lyon
    • J. Schlaepfer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 87 - 93

14. The Interpretation and Clinical Application of Data from Trials on Sudden Cardiac Death

    • Robert J. Myerburg
    • Raul Mitrani
    • Agustin Castellanos

    OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 102

15. Evaluating AVID, CASH, CIDS, CABG-Patch & MADIT: Are They Concordant?

    • Dirk Böcker
    • Günter Breithardt

    OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 108

16. Other Primary Prevention Trials—What Is Clinically And Economically Necessary?

    • David S. Cannom

    OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 115

17. New Mapping Technology for Atrial Tachycardias

    • Ellen Hoffmann
    • Petra Nimmermann
    • Gerhard Steinbeck

    OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 120

18. Predictors of Success in Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Atrial Flutter

    • Burghard Schumacher
    • Christian Wolpert
    • Berndt Lüderitz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 125

19. Novel Catheter Technology for Ablative Cure of Atrial Fibrillation

    • Michael D. Lesh
    • Peter Guerra
    • Kevin Taylor

    OriginalPaper Pages: 127 - 139

20. Atrial Fibrillation: Defining Potential Curative Ablation Targets

    • David G. Benditt
    • Nemer Samniah
    • Scott Sakaguchi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 141 - 147

21. Atrial Pacing to Prevent Atrial Fibrillation?

    • S. Mark Sopher
    • A. John Camm

    OriginalPaper Pages: 149 - 153

22. New Concepts in Atrial Defibrillation

    • Gregory M. Ayers

    OriginalPaper Pages: 155 - 161

23. New Devices and Hybrid Therapies and New Devices for Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation

    • Ryszard B. Krol
    • Sanjeev Saksena
    • Atul Prakash

    OriginalPaper Pages: 163 - 169

24. The AFFIRM Trial: Main Trial and Substudies—What Can We Expect?

    • D. George Wyse

    OriginalPaper Pages: 171 - 176

25. Pacing in Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation: The PIPAF Studies

    • Frédéric Anselme
    • Nadir Saoudi
    • Alain Cribier

    OriginalPaper Pages: 177 - 184

26. Clinical Experience with Implantable Atrial and Combined Atrioventricular Defibrillators

    • Werner Jung
    • Christian Wolpert
    • Berndt Lüderitz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 185 - 195

27. Design and Preliminary Data of the Metrix™ Atrioverter Expanded Indication Trial

    • Carl Timmermans
    • Luz-Maria Rodriguez
    • Hein JJ Wellens

    OriginalPaper Pages: 197 - 199

28. Quality of Life in Atrial Fibrillation

    • Berndt Lüderitz
    • Werner Jung

    OriginalPaper Pages: 201 - 209