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About the Authors Antoni Bays de Luna is Emeritus Professor of Cardiology, Autonomous University of Barcelona. Senior Investigator, Research Institute Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, IIB-Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain. Miquel Fiol-Sala is Scientific Director of the Health Research Institute of the Balearic Islands. Former Director of the Coronary Care Unit, Son Espases University Hospital. Associate professor at the University of the Balearic Islands. Spain Antoni Bays-Gens is Head of the Heart Institute, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona; Full professor, Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Adrin Baranchuk is Professor of Medicine at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and serves as President Elect of the Interamerican Society of Cardiology (SIAC) Preface by Prof. Antoni Bays de Luna vii Preface by Drs Miquel Fiol-Sala, Antoni Bayes-Gens, and Adrin Baranchuk viii Foreword by Dr Marcelo V. Elizari ix Foreword by Dr Pedro Brugada xi Recommended Reading xiii Part 1 Introductory Aspects 1 The Electrical Activity of the Heart 3 2 The History of Electrocardiography 11 3 Utility and Limitations of the Surface ECG: Present and Future 17 Part 2 The Normal ECG 4 The Anatomical Basis of the ECG: From Macroscopic Anatomy to Ultrastructural Characteristics 25 5 The Electrophysiological Basis of the ECG: From Cell Electrophysiology to the Human ECG 35 6 The ECG Recording: Leads, Devices, and Techniques 56 7 Characteristics of the Normal Electrocardiogram: Normal ECG Waves and Intervals 69 8 Diagnostic Criteria: Sensitivity, Specificity, and Predictive Value 100 Part 3 Abnormal ECG Patterns 9 Atrial Abnormalities 107 10 Ventricular Enlargement 133 11 Ventricular Blocks 170 12 Ventricular Pre-excitation 215 13 Ischemia and Necrosis 229 Part 4 Arrhythmias 14 Mechanisms, Classification, and Clinical Aspects of Arrhythmias 299 15 Active Supraventricular Arrhythmias 321 16 Active Ventricular Arrhythmias 350 17 Passive Arrhythmias 376 18 Diagnosis of Arrhythmias in Clinical Practice: A Step-by-Step Approach 396 Part 5 The Clinical Usefulness of Electrocardiography 19 The Diagnostic Value of Electrocardiographic Abnormalities 411 20 The ECG in Different Clinical Set of Ischemic Heart Disease 427 21 Inherited Heart Diseases 478 22 The ECG in Other Heart Diseases 498 23 The ECG in Other Diseases and Different Situations 520 24 Other ECG Patterns of Risk 539 25 Limitations of the Conventional ECG: Utility of Other Techniques 552 26 The Electrocardiology of the Twenty-First Century 571 Index 574
