ADVANCES IN ELECTROCARDIOLOGY 2004

ADVANCES IN ELECTROCARDIOLOGY 2004
Proceedings of the 31th International Congress on Electrocardiology

Kyoto, Japan, 27 June – 1 July 2004

CONTENTS


FRONT MATTER	vii
1 Long QT Syndrome
1979-2004 : 25 YEARS OF THE INTERNATIONAL REGISTRY FOR THE LONG QT SYNDROME: ITS IMPACT ON KNOWLEDGE AND CLINICAL MANAGEMENT PETER J. SCHWARTZ	3
2 Atrial Fibrillation
ION CHANNEL REMODELING AND ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: CLINICAL ASPECTS HJGM CRIJNS	21
LONG-TERM EFFICACY OF ANTIARRHYTHMIC DRUG THERAPY AND ITS INFLUENCE TO THE PROGNOSIS IN PATIENTS WITH PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION KEN OKUMURA	25
ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY OF PULMONARY VEIN MYOCARDIAL SLEEVES AND THEIR ROLE IN ATRIAL FIBRILLATION HARUO HONJO	26
EFFICACY OF BEPRIDIL AND APRINDINE IN PHARMACOLOGICAL CONVERSION OF LONG LASTING ATRIAL FIBRILALTION AKIRA FUJIKI, TAKAYUKI TSUNEDA, KUNIHIRO NISHIDA, MASAO SAKABE, MASATAKA SUGAO, KOICHI MIZUMAKI and HIROSHI INOUE	34
PROGRESSIVE NATURE OF PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION - OBSERVATIONS FROM A 14-YEAR FOLLOW-UP STUDY - TAKESHI KATO, TAKESHI YAMASHITA, KOUICHI SAGARA, HIROYUKI IINUMA and LONG-TAI FU	42
3 Basic Electrophysiology
MECHANISMS OF VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION: ROLE OF INWARD RECTIFYER CHANNELS JOSÉ JALIFE	49
RECIPROCAL REGULATION OF RGS PROTEINS BY PHOSPHOLIPID AND CA²⁺/CALMODULIN IN CARDIOMYOCYTES: IMPLICATION FOR CHOLINERGIC REGULATION OF HEART RATES MASARU ISHII and YOSHIHISA KURACHI	50
HERG POTASSIUM CHANNEL IS REGULATED BY PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE (PTK) IN HUMAN EMBRYONIC KIDNEY CELLS LONG-MEI WU, KAZUO UEDA, YUJI HIRANO, TETSUSHI FURUKAWA and MASAYASU HIRAOKA	54
ACUTE AMIODARONE PROLONGS VT CYCLE LENGTH AND PREVENTS WAVE-BREAK OF SPIRAL TYPE EXCITATIONS HARUMICHI NAKAGAWA, MASATOSHI YAMAZAKI, YUSUKE OKUNO, SHIHO NASHIMOTO, TAKAHIRO YAMAGUCHI, TATSUHIKO ARAFUNE, ICHIRO SAKUMA, NITARO SHIBATA, HARUO HONJO, KAICHIRO KAMIYA and ITSUO KODAMA	57
LOSARTAN DECREASES THE ARRHYTHMOGENIC ACTIVITY OF PULMONARY VEIN CARDIOMYOCYTE YAO-CHANG CHEN, YI-JEN CHEN, SHIH-ANN CHEN and CHENG-I LIN	58
ENALAPRIL PRESERVES SINUS NODE FUNCTION IN A CANINE BRADYCARDIA-TACHYCARDIA SYNDROME MODEL MASAO SAKABE, AKIRA FUJIKI, KUNIHIRO NISHIDA, MASATAKA SUGAO, TAKAYUKI TSUNEDA, KOICHI MIZUMAKI and HIROSHI INOUE	59
AMIODARONE NOT ONLY REVERSES ELECTRICAL REMODELING BUT SUPPRESSES MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES 2 ACTIVITY IN CANINE PACING-INDUCED PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION MODEL KEIICHI ASHIKAGA, TAKAO KOBAYASHI, MASAOMI KIMURA, SHINGEN OWADA, TAKUMI HIGUMA, SHINGO SASAKI, ATSUSHI IWASA, KEN-ICHI FURUKAWA, SHIGERU MOTOMURA and KEN OKUMURA	63
HETEROGENIC PROCESS OF THE APPEARANCE OF THE ATRIAL ELECTRICAL REMODELING IN CANINE RAPID STIMULATION MODEL JISHO KOJIMA, SHINICHI NIWANO, DAISUKE SATO, MASAHIKO MORIGUCHI, YUKO WAKISAKA, KAZUKO IKEDA, KIMIATSU INUO, HIDEYUKI HARA, TOHRU YOSHIDA and TOHRU IZUMI	64
ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF THE LA-PV TISSUES OF X_IN-GENE KNOCKOUT MICE C.Y. SONG, Y.J. LAI, Y.X. LOH, Y.C. CHEN and C.I. LIN	69
HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION OF THE MUSCARINIC K⁺ CHANNELS IN GUINEA-PIG ATRIA YOH YASUDA, HIROYUKI TODA, WEI-GUANG DING, FUTOSHI TOYODA, MAKOTO ITOH, MINORU HORIE and HIROSHI MATSUURA	73
ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY OF SINGLE CARDIOMYOCYTES ISOLATED FROM LEFT ATRIUM AND PULMONARY VEINS OF MYOPATHIC VERSUS HEATHLY HAMSTERS YUE-XIA LOH, YAO-CHAN CHEN and CHENG-I LIN	74
DEVELOPMENT OF A DYNAMIC GAP JUNCTION MODEL INCLUDING THE Ca²⁺ GATE CHIAKI OKA, HIROYUKI MATSUDA, NOBUAKI SARAI, SATOSHI MATSUOKA and AKINORI NOMA	75
ROLE OF ERK-MEDIATED SUPPRESSION OF GAP JUNCTION PERMEABILITY IN CARDIOPROTECTION AFFORDED BY MITO-K_ATP CHANNEL ACTIVATION YOSHIHIKO ICHIKAWA, TETSUJI MIURA, TAKAYUKI MIKI, JUN SAKAMOTO, YUICHI NAKAMURA, TOSHIYUKI YANO and KAZUAKI SHIMAMOTO	81
EXTRACELLULAR POTASSIUM DEPENDENT NEGATIVE DROMOTROPIC ACTIONS OF NICORANDIL: EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL STUDY TORU MARUYAMA, FUMIAKI KUMA, HIROYUKI ITO, YOSHIKAZU KAJI and TATSUTO KIYOSUE	82
OPENING OF CARDIOVASCULAR ATP-SENSITIVE K⁺ CHANNELS IS INDUCED BY DIMERIZATION OF NUCLEOTIDE-BINDING DOMAINS OF SULFONYLUREA RECEPTORS 2A AND 2B MITSUHIKO YAMADA and YOSHIHISA KURACHI	87
PLATELET ACTIVATING FACTOR AFFECTS INTRACELLULAR CALCIUM CONCENTRATION BY MODULATING L-TYPE CALCIUM CHANNEL TOSHIHIKO KAKU, HIDEAKI OZAKI, SATOSHI ISHII, TAKAO SHIMIZU and KATSUSHIGE ONO	92
LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF AMIODARONE ON THE TRANSCRIPTION OF T₃-RESPONSIVE GENES IN RAT HEARTS RONGQIAN SHI, JONG-KOOK LEE, YOKO TAKEUCHI, MITSURU HORIBA, KENJI YASUI, FUKUSHI KAMBE, YOSHIHARU MURATA and ITSUO KODAMA	97
EFFECTS OF INWARD/OUTWARD CURRENT INJECTION AT THE EARLY PLATEAU PHASE ON CARDIAC ACTION POTENTIAL DURATIONS: A COMPUTATIONAL STUDY YUJI HIRANO and MASAYASU HIRAOKA	103
ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF PALMITATE ON RABBIT PULMONARY VEIN MYOCARDIAL CELLS SATOSHI HIGA, YAO-CHAN CHEN, JENG WEI, MICHIO SHIMABUKURO and CHENG-I LIN	108
RAPID ATRIAL PACING UPREGULATES SYNTHESIS OF ASYMMETRIC DIMETHYLARGININE IN CANINE AF MODEL TAKAO KOBAYASHI, KEIICHI ASHIKAGA, MASAOMI KIMURA, SHINGEN OWADA, TAKUMI HIGUMA, SHINGO SASAKI, ATSUSHI IWASA, TOMOHIRO OSANAI, SHIGERU MOTOMURA and KEN OKUMURA	109
COMBINED EFFECTS OF NIFEKALANT AND LIDOCAINE ON SPIRAL-TYPE REENTRANT VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIAS IN RABBIT HEARTS MARI AMINO, KOICHIRO YOSHIOKA, KAZUTANE USUI, YOSHIAKI DEGUCHI, TERUHISA TANABE, MASATOSHI YAMAZAKI, HARUMICHI NAKAGAWA, KENJI YASUI, HARUO HONJYO, KAICHIRO KAMIYA and ITSUO KODAMA	110
REGIONAL ABNORMALITY OF RESTITUTION PROPERTIES CAUSE ELECTRICAL ALTERNANS AND ARRHYTHMIA IN CHRONIC MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION YUKIO HOSOYA, KOUICHI YUUKI, ISAO KUBOTA and MICHIYASU YAMAKI	111
UNEXCITED CORE OF SPIRAL WAVE REENTRY HAS A SMALL BUT OBVIOUSLY DEPOLARIZED POTENTIAL - STUDY BY OPTICAL MAPPING AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS- TSUNETOYO NAMBA, TAKENORI YAO, HARUMICHI NAKAGAWA, MASAYOSHI YAMASAKI, TAKANORI IKEDA, KAZUO NAKAZAWA, HARUO HONJO, KOICHIRO KAMIYA, ITSUO KODAMA, TATSUHIKO ARAFUNE, AKIRA MISHIMA, ICHIRO SAKUMA and TOHRU OHE	112
ANALYSIS OF VIRTUAL ELECTRODE POLARIZATION INDUCED BREAK EXCITATION AND CAPTURE MECHANISMS OF EXCITATION PROPAGATION BY ELECTRICAL POINT STIMULUS TATSUHIKO ARAFUNE, YUHEI TAKATA, SHIHO NASHIMOTO, TAKAHIRO YAMAGUCHI, ETSUKO KOBAYASHI, ICHIRO SAKUMA, NITARO SHIBATA, HARUMICHI NAKAGAWA, MASATOSHI YAMAZAKI, HARUO HONJO, KAICHIRO KAMIYA and ITSUO KODAMA	113
SIMULTANEOUS DETECTION OF WAVE PROPAGATION VELOCITY AND DIRECTION IN OPTICAL MAPPING DATA OF CARDIAC EXCITATION USING OPTICAL FLOW YUHEI TAKATA, SHIHO NASHIMOTO, TAKAHIRO YAMAGUCHI, TATSUHIKO ARAFUNE, ETSUKO KOBAYASHI, ICHIRO SAKUMA, NITARO SHIBATA, HARUO HONJO and ITSUO KODAMA	114
A CANINE MODEL OF BRUGADA SYNDROME USING REGIONAL EPICARDIAL COOLING OF THE RIGHT VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW KUNIHIRO NISHIDA, AKIRA FUJIKI, KOICHI MIZUMAKI, MASAO SAKABE, MASATAKA SUGAO, TAKAYUKI TSUNEDA and HIROSHI INOUE	119
LONG-TERM TREATMENT WITH GLIBENCLAMIDE INCREASES SUSCEPTIBILITY OF STREPTOZOTOCIN- INDUCED DIABETIC RAT HEART TO REPERFUSION- INDUCED VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA NAOHIKO TAKAHASHI, TATSUHIKO OOIE, MIKIKO NAKAGAWA and TETSUNORI SAIKAWA	124
4 Genetics of Arrhythmias
ION CHANNEL GENE PROFILING IN A MOUSE MODEL OF ACQUIRED QT PROLONGATION AND VENTRICULAR TACHYARRHYTHMIAS SECONDARY TO COMPLETE AV BLOCK JONG-KOOK LEE, DAISUKE YUASA, MITSUNORI IWASE, SUGIKO FUTAKI, MOTOHARU HAYASHI, MITSURU HORIBA, KENJI YASUI, YOSHITAKA HAYASHI and ITSUO KODAMA	127
VENTRICULAR REPOLARIZATION ABNORMALITY IN JAPANESE CARRIERS OF G643S SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM OF KCNQ1 GENE TOMOYA OZAWA, MAKOTO ITO, SHINJI TAMAKI, TAKENORI YAO, TAKASHI ASHIHARA, YOSHIKUNI KITAT, HIROTSUGU UESHIMA and MINORU HORIE	131
GENOTYPIC/PHENOTYPIC CHARACTERISTICS IN JAPANESE PATIENTS WITH KCNJ2-ASSOCIATED ANDERSEN-TAWIL SYNDROME ATSUSHI KOBORI, TAKEHIKO INOUE, YUKIO HOSAKA, TAKASHI WASHIZUKA, TOMOAKI MURAKAMI, HIDEO YAMANOUCHI, HIROYA USHINOHAMA, YOSHIHIDE NAKAMURA, TOMOHIKO AI, YOSHIFUSA AIZAWA, TORU KITA and MINORU HORIE	134
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN UNDERLYING HEART RHYTHM AND INDUCIBILITY OF VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION IN BRUGADA SYNDROME HIDETOSHI ITAKURA, YOSHIHISA ENJOJI, AKIYOSHI MORIYAMA, TAKESHI NAKAE, TAKAO SAKATA, MAHITO NORO and KAORU SUGI	135
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PATIENTS WITH BRUGADA SYNDROME AND TACHYARRHYTHMIAS EXCLUDING BOTH VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION (VF) AND ATRIAL FIBRILLATION (AF) HIDETAKA OKAZAKI, HIROAKI YAMAGUCHI, OH JUNG-CHA, TAMOTSU TEJIMA, HARUMIZU SAKURADA, MITSUHIRO NISHIZAKI and MASAYASU HIRAOKA	136
CLINICAL RELEVANCE OF PILSICAINIDE CHALLENGE TEST FOR RISK STRATIFICATION OF SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH IN PATIENTS WITH BRUGADA TYPE ECG SHINGO SASAKI, ATSUSHI IWASA, TAKUMI HIGUMA, SHINGEN OWADA and KEN OKUMURA	137
COMPLETE RBBB PATTERN IN ECGS IN PATIENTS WITH BRUGADA SYNDROME IS ASSOCIATED WITH A HIGHER INCIDENCE OF VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION EVENTS NAOYA TSUBOI, ITSUO KODAMA, YUKIHIKO YOSHIDA, KAZUYOSHI TAJIMA, HARUO HIRAYAMA, TERUO ITOH, JUNJI TOYAMA, KAZUO YAMADA, TAKUMI YAMADA and YOSHIMASA MURAKAMI	138
CLINICAL AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ABORTED SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH PATIENTS WITHOUT STRUCTURAL HEART DISEASE SEIJI FUKAMIZU, SHINOBU IMAI, ATSUSHI IKEDA, YOSHITAKA SAKAI, ICHIRO SUNAGAWA, HIDEKI YAGI, HIROSHI AOYAMA, HIDEYUKI TANAKA, KIYOSHI TOGAWA, SATOSHI YAMAJI, HIDEHITO TAKASE, KAGARI MATSUDAIRA, NAOYUKI TAKAHASHI, KEIICHI SUGINO and HIROSHI YAGI	139
5 Computer Simulation
SHOCK-INDUCED CHANGES IN TRANSMEMBRANE POTENTIAL: WHAT IS THE ASYMMETRY DUE TO? INSIGHTS FROM BIDOMAIN SIMULATIONS TAKASHI ASHIHARA and NATALIA TRAYANOVA	143
INVESTIGATION OF ELECTRICAL DEFIBRILLATION OF CHAOTICALLY FIBRILLATING HUMAN VENTRICULAR MYOCARDIUM IN A COMPUTER MODEL I. M. POPP, G. SEEMANN and O. DÖSSEL	148
COMPUTER SIMULATIONS ON HIGH FREQUENCY COMPONENTS OF ECG DUE TO MICRO-NECROSES YOSHIWO OKAMOTO, NAOKO ZENDA, MASAFUMI KASAMA, HISA SHIMOJIMA and TAKESHI TSUTSUMI	152
ON THE GENESIS OF THE INJURY POTENTIALS YOSHIWO OKAMOTO, MASAHIKO KONDOH and SABURO MASHIMA	153
SPATIOTEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION IN AN ANISOTROPIC HUMAN HEART MODEL J. R. FITZ-CLARKE, J. C. CLEMENTS and B. M. HORÁČEK	154
ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL REPOLARIZATION CHANGES USING MODEL BASED BSPM INTERPRETATION MILAN TYSLER, MARIE TURZOVA and SLAVOMIRA FILIPOVA	158
6 Sudden Cardiac Death
ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC PREDICTORS OF CARDIAC EVENTS IN MADIT II PATIENTS WOJCIECH ZAREBA	165
HEART RATE TURBULENCE AXEL BAUER, PETRA BARTHEL and GEORG SCHMIDT	166
SHORT TERM MEASURES OF HEART RATE VARIABILITY EILIDH HODGART, ELAINE CLARK, SHAHID LATIF and PETER W MACFARLANE	174
RISK STRATIFICATION FOR SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH USING MICROVOLT T-WAVE ALTERNANS IN POSTMYOCARDIAL INFARCTION PATIENTS TAKANORI IKEDA, KAORU SUGI and HIDEAKI YOSHINO	182
CLINICAL APPLICATION OF BRS (BAROREFLEX SENSITIVITY) FOR RISK STRATIFICATION OF SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH AND CHF RYUJI NOHARA	192
CORRECTED QT DISPERSION IS THE PREDICTOR IN CORONARY MICROVASCULAR ISCHEMIA TAKEAKI OHTA, SUNAO KODAMA, NATSUMI MORITO, EIJI YAHIRO, HIROYUKI MIHARA, KEI MIYOSHI, YOSHIO YAMANOUCHI and HIDENORI URATA	199
CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PATIENTS WITH IDIOPATHIC VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION HIDEO OKAMURA, SHIRO KAMAKURA, TAKASHI NODA, KIYOSHI OTOMO, KAZUHIRO SATOMI, KAZUHIRO SUYAMA, WATARU SHIMIZU, TAKASHI KURITA and NAOHIKO AIHARA	200
7 New Frontier in Basic Cardiac Electrophysiology
CLINICAL, GENETIC, MOLECULAR, AND CELLULAR ASPECTS OF THE BRUGADA SYNDROME CHARLES ANTZELEVITCH	203
FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF Ca²⁺ SIGNALING PATHWAYS IN MOUSE EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS DURING DIFFERENTIATION TO CARDIOMYOCYTES SEIKO KAWANO, SATOSHI SHOJI, AKINORI KURUMA, YOSHIYUKI HIRAYAMA, KEISHI OTSU, ERI YANAGIDA, YUKO MUTO, FUMIO YOSHIKAWA and TEIICHI FURUICHI	219
DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGES OF L-TYPE AND T-TYPE CA²⁺ CHANNELS IN CARDIAC CELLS KENJI YASUI	230
8 Ion Channels
CO-CULTURED SKELETAL MYOCYTE AND CARDIOMYOCYTE CELL-SHEETS COULD NOT ESTABLISH ELECTRICAL COMMUNICATION, BUT CAUSED FIBRILLATING ACTIVITY IN CARDIOMYOCYTE SHUNICHIRO MIYOSHI, YUJI ITABASHI, KEIICHI FUKUDA, KOJIRO TANIMOTO, TATSUYA SHIMIZU, YOKO HAGIWARA, AKIRA FURUTA, TOMOKO TANAKA, NOBUHIRO NISHIYAMA, TERUO OKANO, HIDEO MITAMURA and SATOSHI OGAWA	241
REMODELING OF GAP JUNCTION CONNEXIN IN ATRIAL AND VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION ISSEI IMANAGA, LIN HAI and KOICHI OGAWA	242
A MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF THE PROPOSED FUZZY SPACE FOR NA+ AND CA2+ IN LEFT VENTRICLE CARDIOMYOCYTES G. T. LINES, P. GRØTTUM, JØRN B. SANDE, TÆVJE A. STRØMME and OLE M. SEJERSTED	246
ATP-SENSITIVE K⁺ CHANNEL IS NOT INVOLVED IN THE EXTRACELLULAR K⁺ ACCUMULATION IN ISCHEMIC MOUSE HEART TOSHIAKI SATO, TOMOAKI SAITO, TAKASHI MIKI, SUSUMU SEINO and HARUAKI NAKAYA	250
SEALING OF ELECTRICALLY RUPTURED PORES BY LA³⁺ AND POLYETHYLENEGLYCOL IN RABBIT VENTRICULAR CELL MEMBRANE RIKUO OCHI, YUMEI SONG and LIU FAN	251
COMPARATIVE EFFECTS OF INSULIN AND INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR-1 ON DOG VENTRICULAR MUSCLES AND RABBIT CARDIOMYOCYTES C. H. HSU, C. -I LIN, Y. X. LOH, Y. C. CHEN, J. WEI, S. Y. HU and J. H. HUANG	252
STIMULATORY ACTION OF ANGIOTENSIN II ON I_KS POTASSIUM CURRENT IN GUINEA-PIG ATRIAL CELLS DIMITAR ZANKOV, WEI-GUANG DING, HIROSHI MATSUURA and MINORU HORIE	257
MOLECULAR AND FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES OF T-TYPE CA²⁺ CHANNEL IN MOUSE EMBRYONIC HEARTS NORIKO NIWA, KENJI YASUI, TOBIAS OPTHOF, HARUKI TAKEMURA, ATSUYA SHIMIZU, MITSURU HORIBA, JONG-KOOK LEE, HARUO HONJO, KAICHIRO KAMIYA and ITSUO KODAMA	261
EFFECTS OF EICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID ON THE ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF RABBIT LEFT ATRIAL-PULMONARY VEIN CARDIOMYOCYTES I-JUNG CHEN, YAO-CHAN CHEN, JENG WEI and CHENG-I LIN	262
TWO MODES OF POLYAMINE BLOCK REGULATING THE CARDIAC K⁺ CURRENT I_K1 AS REVEALED BY A STUDY OF THE KIR2.1 CHANNEL KEIKO ISHIHARA	263
EFFECTS OF ANTIARRHYTHMIC DRUGS ON THE CURRENTS OF XENOPUS OOCYTES EXPRESSING HERG AND KvLQT1/minK CHANNELS KUNIAKI ISHII, KAZUE NAKASHIMA and MASAO ENDOH	264
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN KCHIP2 AND TRANSIENT OUTWARD CURRENT OF DEVELOPING RAT HEART TAKESHI KOBAYASHI, YOICHI YAMADA, MASATO NAGASHIMA, MITSUHIRO FUKAO, KAZUTOSHI KAMEDA, SUMIHIKO SEKI, MASAAKI TSUTSUURA, YOSHINORI ITO, ICHIRO SAKUMA, HIROFUMI HAMADA, TOMIO ABE and NORITSUGU TOHSE	268
DEPRIVATION OF MEMBRANE CHOLESTEROL DEPRESSES CAMP-DEPENDENT ENHANCEMENT OF L-TYPE CA CURRENT IN RABBIT VENTRICULAR MYOCYTES HIROTO TSUJIKAWA, HARUKO MASUMIYA, YUMEI SONG, CHUNGHONG JIN and RIKUO OCHI	269
POTENTIATION OF I_Ks POTASSIUM CURRENT IN GUINEA-PIG VENTRICULAR MYOCYTES BY SPHINGOSINE-1-PHOSPHATE HIROYUKI TODA, WEI-GUANG DING, FUTOSHI TOYODA, YO YASUDA, MAKOTO ITO, MINORU HORIE and HIROSHI MATSUURA	270
DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF MEFENAMIC ACID ON CARDIAC I_Ks AND THE KCNQ1/KCNE1 CHANNELS FUTOSHI TOYODA, WEI-GUANG DING, ZANKOV DIMITAR and HIROSHI MATSUURA	271
β₁-SELECTIVE ANTAGONISTS ARE MORE EFFECTIVE FOR THE TREATMENT OF TYPE 1 LONG QT SYNDROME KAZUNOBU KAWAKAMI, TOSHIHISA NAGATOMO, HARUHIKO ABE, YASUSHI OGINOSAWA, TAKUO TSURUGI and YASUHIDE NAKASHIMA	274
OPEN-STATE UNBLOCK CHARACTERIZES ACUTE INHIBITION OF I_KS POTASSIUM CURRENT BY AMIODARONE IN GUINEA-PIG VENTRICULAR MYOCYTES DIMITAR ZANKOV, WEI-GUANG DING, HIROSHI MATSUURA and MINORU HORIE	278
ACUTE MYOCARDITIS CAUSES STRUCTURAL AND ELECTRICAL VENTRICULAR REMODELING -THE ROLE OF REDUCTION OF I_TO-RELATED MOLECULES IN EXPERIMENTAL AUTOIMMUNE MYOCARDITIS RAT- YUKO WAKISAKA, SHINICHI NIWANO, HIROE NIWANO, JUNKO SAITO, TOHRU YOSHIDA, SHOJI HIRASAWA and TOHRU IZUMI	282
A NOVEL DELETION MUTATION OF KCNQ1 THAT CAUSES LONG QT SYNDROME IN A NEAR-DROWNING PATIENT'S FAMILY HARUYUKI YAMAZAKI, KUNIO OHTA, AKIKO ISHIZAKI, NAMI NAKAMURA, TAKEKATSU SAITO, YO NIIDA and SHOICHI KOIZUMI	283
PHENOTYPICAL OVERLAPPING OF SICK SINUS AND BRUGADA SYNDROMES IN A FAMILY WITH A NOVEL SCN5A MUTATION FUMIKO YANAGISAWA, YUKEI HIGASHI, HISA SHIMOJIMA, TAKESHI TSUTSUMI, YOUICHI TAKEYAMA, NAOKO ZENDA, TAKERU MAKIYAMA and MINORU HORIE	287
KCNQ1 MUTATION CAUSING DOMINANT-NEGATIVE SUPPRESSION DUE TO DEFECTIVE CHANNEL TRAFFICKING UNDERLIES CARDIAC ARREST IN A PATIENT WITH LONG QT SYNDROME YOSHIYASU AIZAWA, LONG-MEI WU, KAZUO UEDA, SEIKO KAWANO, YUJI HIRANO, AKINORI KIMURA, YOSHIFUSA AIZAWA and MASAYASU HIRAOKA	288
9 Genetic Basis for Cardiac Arrhythmias
DNA MICROARRAYS AND ARRHYTHMIAS DENIS G. ESCANDE	295
MOLECULAR, GENETIC AND CLINICAL ASPECTS OF ARRHYTHMIA DISORDERS CONNIE R. BEZZINA and ARTHUR A.M. WILDE	297
ALLELIC VARIANTS IN CARDIAC ION CHANNEL GENES IN PATIENTS WITH DRUG-INDUCED LONG QT SYNDROME HIDEAKI KANKI	311
GENETIC BASIS OF CARDIAC NA CHANNELOPATHIES NAOMASA MAKITA and MINORU HORIE	312
10 Clinical Arrhythmias
BEPRIDIL REGULARIZES VENTRICULAR RESPONSE DURING ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH PROLONGATION OF FIBRILLATION CYCLE LENGTH TAKAYUKI TSUNEDA, AKIRA FUJIKI, MASATAKA SUGAO, MASAO SAKABE, KUNIHIRO NISHIDA, KOICHI MIZUMAKI and HIROSHI INOUE	321
THE SUPPRESSIVE EFFECT OF BEPRIDIL ON ATRIAL FLUTTER ORGANIZED FROM PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION DURING CLASS IC ANTIARRHYTHMIC THERAPY MAKOTO SUZUKI, MITSUHIRO NISHIZAKI, TETSUO ARAKAWA, TAKAHIRO OHARA, AKIHIKO MATSUMURA, YUJI HASHIMOTO and MASAYASU HIRAOKA	326
CONVERSION AND MAINTENANCE EFFECTS OF SINUS RHYTHM BY BEPRIDIL IN PATIENTS WITH PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION YUJI NAKAZATO, MASAYUKI YASUDA, AKITOSHI SASAKI, YOUJI IIDA, YASUNOBU KAWANO, KAORU NAKAZATO, TAKASHI TOKANO, HIROYUKI DAIDA, YORIAKI MINEDA, MASATAKA SUMIYOSHI and YASURO NAKATA	327
BULGARIAN GENERAL PRACTITIONERS' KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE ATRIAL FIBRILLATION MANAGEMENT BORISLAV GEORGIEV, NINA GOTCHEVA and ILIA TOMOV	330
EFFECT OF CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY ON THE INCIDENCE OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN PATIENTS WITH POOR SYSTOLIC FUNCTION JEFFREY W FUNG, YVONNE ZHANG, ANNA CHAN, MAGGIE WANG, PEARL HO, GABRIEL YIP, CHEUK M YU and JOHN E SANDERSON	335
THE DIFFERENCES IN THE BULGARIAN GENERAL PRACTITIONERS' AND CARDIOLOGISTS' APPROACH TO THE SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIAS MANAGEMENT BORISLAV GEORGIEV, NINA GOTCHEVA and ILIA TOMOV	336
EFFICACY OF NIFEKALANT HYDROCHLORIDE ON THE MANAGEMENT OF LIFE-THREATENING VENTRICULAR TACHYARRHYTHMIAS IN PATIENTS WITH NON-ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY. TAKASHI WASHIZUKA, MASAOMI CHINUSHI, HIROSHI FURUSHIMA, HIROSHI WATANABE and YOSHIFUSA AIZAWA	340
EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF LOW DOSE AMIODARONE YASUNOBU KAWANO, YUJI NAKAZATO, AKITOSHI SASAKI, YOUJI IIDA, KAORU NAKAZATO, TAKASHI TOKANO, MASAYUKI YASUDA, HIROYUKI DAIDA, YORIAKI MINEDA, MASATAKA SUMIYOSHI and YASURO NAKATA	344
ROLE OF COMBINED TREATMENT OF BEPRIDIL IN PATIENTS WITH IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATORS. DAISUKE IZUMI, HIOROSHI WATANABE, MASAOMI CHINUSHI, TAKASHI WASHIZUKA, HIROTAKA SUGIURA, TAKASHI HIRONO, SATORU KOMURA, YUKIO HOSAKA, YASUTAKA TANABE, HIROSHI FURUSHIMA, SATORU FUJITA and YOSHIFUSA AIZAWA	348
PROGNOSTIC IMPACT OF AMIODARONE COMPARED TO D, L-SOTALOL IN PATIENTS WITH IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR YASUHIRO YOKOYAMA, YASUTERU YAMAUCHI, KOJI KUMAGAI, YASUAKI TANAKA, KEN KURIHARA, AKIRA SATO, ATSUSHI TAKAHASHI and KAZUTAKA AONUMA	349
REPOLARIZATION, ESTIMATION CRITERION FOR EVOLUTION IN CASES WITH MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND NECROSIS Q WAVE DISAPPEARANCE RADU GRIGORE and CHRISTINA SUTESCU	350
THEORETICAL STUDY ON THE NONLINEAR NATURE IN HR-DEPENDENCY OF VPC APPEARANCES NORIAKI IKEDA, AKIHIRO TAKEUCHI, SATOSHI OKAYAMA, NORITAKA MAMORITA, HIDEYUKI HARA and KAN TAKA YANAGI	354
EFFECT OF QUINIDINE AND SOTALOL ON QT INTERVAL AND HEART RATE IN MINIATURE SWINE HIDEKO NITTA, MASAYOSHI KUWAHARA, HIROKAZU TSUBONE, EIJI KUMAGAI and MANABU TANIGAWA	358
CRITICAL ROLES OF PILSICAINIDE AT TERMINATION OF ATRIAL FLUTTER STUDIED BY NONCONTACT 3D MAPPING IN THE CANINE INCISION MODEL KIKUYA UNO, TORU IWA, ISAO KATO, YASUSHI SUZUKI, MOTOYUKI FUKUTA, YASUSHI WAKITA, TAKAYUKI ITO and KAZUAKI SHIMAMOTO	362
CYCLIC HEART RATE RECOVERY SPEED FROM THE HOT WATER BATHING STRESS MASA ISHIJIMA	363
PROSPECTIVE FOLLOW-UP STUDY OF QT DISPERSION IN MAINTENANCE HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS LIXIN ZHAO, GEN FUKUDA, MASAKO FUKUDA, KEN FUKUDA, KOJI TANAKA, MIKA SHIBUYA, YUKA YAMAMOTO, TSUYAKO YAMAISHI, TSUYAKO KATSUKI and KAZUYOSHI HAGIWARA	366
BASELINE TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR - ALPHA MEASUREMENT CORRALETES CORONARY COLLATERALS, PREDICTS LEFT VENTRICULAR FUNCTION AND ISCHEMIC EVENTS IN PATIENT WITH ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION CAFER ZORKUN, KRZYSZTOF ZMUDKA, MIECZYSLAW PASOWICZ and WIESLAWA TRACZ	376
COMBINATION OF ST SEGMENT RESOLUTION AND BASELINE TROPONIN I LEVEL PREDICTS FATAL EVENTS AT 1 YEAR IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION CAFER ZORKUN, KRZYSZTOF ZMUDKA, MIECZYSLAW PASOWICZ and WIESLAWA TRACZ	380
11 Clinical Electrophysiology
DISTINCTIVE ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF PULMONARY VEINS IN PATIENTS WITH PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AGAINST ISOPROTERENOL KOICHIRO MOTOKI, HIROYUKI TAKAI, HIROSHI YABUSHITA, KOHEI IKOMA, RYOBUN YASUOKA, TAKAHIRO HAYASHI and KINJI ISHIKAWA	387
QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECTS OF PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION ON THE TRIGGER AND MAINTENANCE OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION TEIICHI YAMANE, KEIICHI INADA, SEIICHIRO MATSUO, SATORU MIYANAGA, TARO DATE, HIDEKAZU MIYAZAKI, KUNIHIKO ABE, KENICHI SUGIMOTO and SEIBU MOCHIZUKI	388
CLINICAL OUTCOME OF 4-PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION IN PATIENTS WITH PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION SEIICHIRO MATSUO, TEIICHI YAMANE, KEIICHI INADA, SATORU MIYANAGA, TARO DATE, HIDEKAZU MIYAZAKI, KENICHI SUGIMOTO and SEIBU MOCHIZUKI	393
CLINICAL AND ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHICAL PREDICTORS OF IMMEDIATE RECURRENCE OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AFTER EXTERNAL CARDIOVERSION BULENT GORENEK, GULMIRA KUDAIBERDIEVA, YUKSEL CAVUSOGLU, OMER GOKTEKIN, ALPASLAN BIRDANE, NECMI ATA, AHMET UNALIR and BILGIN TIMURALP	398
RELATION BETWEEN TRANSVERSE CONDUCTION CAPABILITY AND THE ANATOMY OF THE CRISTA TERMINALIS IN PATIENTS WITH AND WITHOUT ATRIAL FLUTTER YASUO OKUMURA, ICHIRO WATANABE, KIMIE OHKUBO, HIDEZOU SUGIMURA, KENICHI HASHIMOTO, YASUHIRO TAKAGI, TOSHIKO NAKAI, SATOSHI SAITO, YUKIO OZAWA and KOUICHI MATSUMOTO	399
PULMONARY VEIN POTENTIALS WERE COMPLETELY ORGANIZED BY PILSICAINIDE ADMINISTRATION JUST BEFORE TERMINATION OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION ATSUSHI IWASA, SHINGEN OHWADA, SHINGO SASAKI and KEN OKUMURA	400
DIFFERENT RESPONSE BETWEEN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL TEST AND CHALLENGE TEST WITH SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKER IN THE BRUGADA SYNDROME WITH SADDLEBACK-TYPE ST ELEVATION MITSUHIRO NISHIZAKI, HARUMIZU SAKURADA, TOSHIYUKI FURUKAWA, YUKA MIZUSAWA, TORU OGAWA, SHINJI SUGAWARA, HIROYUKI FUJII, TAKASHI ASHIKAGA, NORIYOSHI YAMAWAKE, MASATAKA ARITA, MITSUAKI ISOBE and MASAYASU HIRAOKA	401
ELECTROPHARMACOLOGIC EVALUATION OF QUINIDINE IN THE BRUGADA SYNDROME YUKA MIZUSAWA, HARUMIZU SAKURADA, TSUYOSHI SAKAI, HIROAKI YAMAGUCHI, JUNG-CHA OH, HIDETAKA OKAZAKI, TAMOTSU TEJIMA, MITSUHIRO NISHIZAKI and MASAYASU HIRAOKA	402
COMPARISON OF CLINICAL AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS BETWEEN SYMPTOMATIC AND ASYMPTOMATIC BRUGADA SYNDROME. NAOKI AMAYA, JONG-DAE LEE, AKIRA NAKANO, HIROYASU UZUI, TORU GESHI, KIYOHIRO TOYODA, HARUHISA SHIRASAKI, TOSHIO MIZUGUCHI, MASATO WATANUKI, SHIGERU IKEGUCHI and TAKANORI UEDA	403
SIGNIFICANCE OF SMALL NOTCH POTENTIALS IN THE LATE PHASE OF T-WAVES IN BRUGADA SYNDROME RYOJI KISHI, KIYOSHI NAKAZAWA, AKIHIKO TAKAGI, KEIZO OSADA, OSAMU MIYADU, YOSHIYUKI WATANABE, SATORU NISHIO, HISAO MATSUDA and FUMIHIKO MIYAKE	408
POSSIBILITY OF MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR BRUGADA SYNDROME AKIHIKO TAKAGI, KIYOSHI NAKAZAWA, RYOJI KISHI, KEIZO OSADA, TSUNEHARU SAKURAI, OSAMU MIYAZU, YOSHIYUKI WATANABE, SATORU NISHIO, HISAO MATSUDA and FUMIHIKO MIYAKE	421
CLINICAL PROFILES AND PROGNOSIS OF PATIENTS WITH SYMPTOMATIC AND ASYMPTOMATIC BRUGADA SYNDROME FROM A MULTI-CENTER STUDY IN JAPAN NAOHIKO AIHARA and SHIRO KAMAKURA	430
ELECTRO-ANATOMICAL MAPPING SYSTEM REDUCED RECURRENCE RATE OF ISTHMUS DEPENDENT ATRIAL FLUTTER DURING LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP. TAKU ASANO, YOUICHI KOBAYASHI, TAKAAKI MATSUYAMA, NORIKAZU WATANABE, SHUNSHOU RYUU, MITSUHARU KAWAMURA, KAORU TANNO and TAKASHI KATAGIRI	431
A NOVEL RADIOFREQUENCY CATHETER ABLATION TECHNIQUE FOR CREATION OF CAVOTRICUSPID ISTHMUS BLOCK IN ISTHMUS-DEPENDENT ATRIAL FLUTTER MITSUNORI MARUYAMA, YOSHINORI KOBAYASHI, YU-KI IWASAKI, YASUSHI MIYAUCHI, SHINJIRO MIYAMOTO, TAKESHI TADERA, TAKESHI INO, HIROTSUGU ATARASHI, TAKAO KATOH and TERUO TAKANO	435
FREQUENT ASSOCIATION OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION DOES NOT MEAN INCREASED ATRIAL VULNERABILITY IN WPW SYNDROME: PRESENCE OF "PATIENTS REFERRAL BIAS"? KEISUKE KUGA, MASAE ENDOH, BUMPEI NIHO, AKIHIRO SUZUKI, MIYAKO KANEMOTO, MAMI ENOMOTO, KENTAROU YOSHIDA and IWAO YAMAGUCHI	436
A CASE OF TACHYCARDIA-INDUCED CARDIOMYOPATHY CAUSED BY AN ECTOPIC ATRIAL TACHYCARDIA ORIGINATING FROM THE RIGHT ATRIAL APPENDAGE TOMOKI KUBOTA, KUNIHIKO TSUCHIYA, TOMOHISA HIRANO, KAZUSHIGE YAMAGUCHI, KAZUHIKO NISHIGAKI, SHINYA MINATOGUCHI, HISAYOSHI FUJIWARA, MASAHIKO GOYA, ATSUSHI TAKAHASHI and YOSHITO IESAKA	437
OPTIMAL TEMPERATURE AND ACUTE EFFECT ON SINUS NODE OF ABLATION AT JUNCTION BETWEEN SUPERIOR VENA CAVA AND RIGHT ATRIUM: ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL AND HISTOLOGICAL EVALUATION USING OUR THERMAL BALLOON CATHETER KAZUSHI TANAKA, HIROSHI SOHARA, SHUTARO SATAKE, YOSHIO WATANABE and MICHIO TANAKA	442
LATENT MAHAIM FIBER CONDUCTED DURING ONLY IN ATRIOVENTRICULAR REENTRANT TACHYCARDIA AKIYOSHI MORIYAMA, YOSHIHISA ENJOJI, HIDETOSHI ITAKURA, KENTA KUMAGAI, TSUYOSHI SAKAI, TAKESHI NAKAE, NAOKI TEZUKA, TAKAO SAKATA, MAHITO NORO and KAORU SUGI	447
A SIMPLE CRITERION OF "V-H-A PATTERN BY VENTRICULAR EXTRASTIMULUS" FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRANT TACHYCARDIA SHINGEN OWADA, TAKUMI HIGUMA, SHINGO SASAKI, MASAOMI KIMURA, TAKAO KOBAYASHI, KEIICHI ASHIKAGA and KEN OKUMURA	448
SPECIFIC FINDINGS OF THE STANDARD 12-LEAD ELECTROCARDIOGRAM IN PATIENTS WITH TRANSIENT LEFT VENTRICULAR APICAL BALLOONING: COMPARISON WITH ANTERIOR AMI RIYO OGURA, YOSHIKAZU HIASA, TAKEFUMI TAKAHASHI, TAKESHI TOMOKANE, YOSHIKAZU OHARA, HITOSHI MIYAJIMA, TATSURO OGATA, NAOKI SUZUKI, KENICHIRO YUBA, KOICHI KISHI and RYUJI OTANI	449
SEPTAL Q WAVES IN V6 LEAD DISAPPEAR DURING NARROW QRS SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA: A NEW ECG OBSERVATION MAKOTO NODA, FUMIO SUZUKI, KATSUHIKO MOTOKAWA and MITSUAKI ISOBE	450
CAUSES OF EXERCISE-INDUCED ST-SEGMENT ELEVATION IN OLD ANTERIOR MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION SEIICHI TANIAI, YASUSHI KOIDE, SATORU YUSU, KONOMI SAKATA, MASAYUKI YOTSUKURA, TAKANORI IKEDA and HIDEAKI YOSHINO	451
ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF IDIOPATHIC VENTRICULAR TACHYCARRHYTHMIA ORIGINATING FROM THE RIGHT VENTRICULAR INFLOW TRACT YASUAKI TANAKA, YASUTERU YAMAUCHI, ATSUSHI TAKAHASHI, KOJI KUMAGAI, YASUHIRO YOKOYAMA, KEN KURIHARA, AKIRA SATO and KAZUTAKA AONUMA	452
MORPHOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF IDIOPATHIC LEFT VENTRICULAR TACHYARRHYTHMIA FROM ANTERIOR ASPECTS OF MITRAL ANNULUS COMPARED WITH THOSE FROM AORTIC SINUS CUSPS KOJI KUMAGAI, ASTUSHI TAKAHASHI, YASUTERU YAMAUCHI, YASUHIRO YOKOYAMA, KEN KURIHARA, YASUAKI TANAKA, AKIRA SATOU and KAZUTAKA AONUMA	453
IDIOPATHIC VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION INITIATED BY PREMATURE EXTRASYSTOLES ORIGINATING FROM RIGHT VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW TRACT TAKASHI NODA, WATARU SHIMIZU, ATSUSHI TAGUCHI, MIKI YOKOKAWA, HIDEO OKAMURA, KIYOSHI OTOMO, KAZUHIRO SATOMI, KAZUHIRO SUYAMA, TAKASHI KURITA, NAOHIKO AIHARA and SHIRO KAMAKURA	454
BRUGADA-LIKE ECG FINGINGS ASSOCIATED WITH NON-CARDIAC DISEASES AKITOSHI SASAKI, YUJI NAKAZATO, YASUNOBU KAWANO, YOJI IIDA, YORIAKI MINEDA, TAKASHI TOKANO, KAORU NAKAZATO, MASAYUKI YASUDA, MASATAKA SUMIYOSHI, YASURO NAKATA and HIROYUKI DAIDA	455
ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR CARDIOMYOPATHY WITH RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK AND RIGHT PRECORDIAL ST-SEGMENT ELEVATION -A CASE REPORT- HIROAKI KAWANO, NORIHIRO KOMIYA, SATOKI FUKAE, REIICHIRO NAKAMIZO, YUJI KOIDE, GENJI TODA and KATSUSUKE YANO	459
EFFECT OF INTRACORONARY ACETYLCHOLINE INJECTION ON THE ELECTROCARDIOGRAM IN PATIENTS WITH BRUGADA SYNDROME YOSHIHISA ABE, KEN KADOWAKI, KEN TERATA, AKIRA SHOJI, HAJIME KUMAGAI, TADAYA SATO and MAMORU MIURA	462
INFLUENCE OF ACUTE VAGAL ACTIVITY IN THE PATIENTS WITH BRUGADA SYNDROME NORIYOSHI YAMAWAKE, MITSUHIRO NISHIZAKI, TOHRU OGAWA, SHINJI SUGAWARA, HIROYUKI FUJII, TAKASHI ASHIKAGA, MASATAKA ARITA, HARUMIZU SAKURADA, MITSUAKI ISOBE and MASAYASU HIRAOKA	466
BRUGADA SYNDROME SHOWED CONSISTENT J WAVE AND ST SEGMENT ELEVATION IN 12-LEAD ELECTROCARDIOGRAM: TIME COURSE OF VARIATION ON J WAVE TAKAO NAMIKI and KAZUO MATSUMOTO	467
INAPPROPRIATELY SHORTER QT INTERVAL AT SLOWER HEART RATE CAN DIFFERENTIATE PATIENTS WITH IDIOPATHIC VENTRICULAR FIBLLATION FROM ASYMPTOMATIC BRUGADA SYNDROME MASATAKA SUGAO, AKIRA FUJIKI, TAKAYUKI TUNEDA, KUMIHIRO NISHIDA, MASAO SAKABE, KOUICHI MIZUMAKI and HIROSHI INOUE	471
PREVALENCE OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION CAUSED BY ACUTE ATRIAL DILATION DECREASED IN RAT DISEASED HEART HITOSHI SUZUKI, HIDEKI OTAKE and YUKIO MARUYAMA	476
LONG TERM EFFICACY OF PV ISOLATION FOR PERSITENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION PATIENTS KENICHI HASHIMOTO, ICHIRO WATANABE, KAZUNORI KAWAUCHI, YASUO OKUMURA, KIMIE OOKUBO, HIDEZOU SUGIMURA, TOSHIKO NAKAI, SATOSHI SAITO, YUKIO OZAWA and KOUICHI MATUMOTO	477
P WAVE MORPHOLOGY OF AN ARRHYTHMOGENIC FOCUS WITH PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION ORIGINATING FROM SVC OR RIGHT SUPERIOR PULMONARY VEIN KIMIE OHKUBO, ICHIRO WATANABE, YASUO OKUMURA, TAKESHI YAMADA, HIDEZOU SUGIMURA, TOSHIKO NAKAI, KENITI HASHIMOTO, SATOSHI SAITO, YUKIO OZAWA and KOUITI MATSUMOTO	478
CORONARY SINUS DILATATION IN PATIENTS WITH THE ATRIAL FLUTTER RITSUSHI KATO, KAZUO MATSUMOTO, CHIKASHI SUGA, TOSHIMASA TOSAKA and SHIGEYUKI NISHIMURA	479
EFFECTS OF PULMONARY VENOUS ISOLATION DURING ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS OF ELECTROGRAMS RECORDED BY A BASKET CATHETER SEIICHIRO SAKURAI, KIKUYA UNO, DAIGO NAGAHARA, KAZUFUMI TSUCHIHASHI and KAZUAKI SHIMAMOTO	483
AUTONOMIC NERVOUS ACTIVITY AND QT DISPERSION AT COMMON BILE DUCT TREATMENT DURING ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATICOGRAPHY: CORRELATION WITH CARDIAC ACCIDENTS MASAHIRO NOMURA, YUTAKA NAKAYA, AKIYOSHI NISHIKADO, KUNIHIKO KOSHIBA, KOHJI YAMAGUCHI, TOMOHITO KAWANO and SUSUMU ITO	484
ROLE OF AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM AND RECURRENCE OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AFTER SUCCESSFUL CARDIOVERSION EIICHI WATANABE, TOMOHARU ARAKAWA, MAO QUIN TONG, TATSUSHI UCHIYAMA, ITSUO KODAMA and HITOSHI HISHIDA	489
EFFECT OF BREATHING RATE ON HEART RATE VARIABILITY T. PRINCI, A. ACCARDO and D. PETEREC	492
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REMARKS TO THE ACTIVATION SEQUENCE INVARIANCE OF QRST INTEGRAL MAPS GYÖRGY KOZMANN and KRISZTINA SZAKOLCZAI	499
ANALYSIS OF THE QRST ISOINTEGRAL MAPS IN PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS ANNA BIEŁOUS-WILK, MAŁGORZATA MICAŁ-STRĄK, MAŁGORZATA SOBIESZCZAŃSKA, JÓZEF JAGIELSKI, LESŁAW RUSIECKI, DARIUSZ JAGIELSKI and DARIUSZ KAŁKA	503
ISOINTEGRAL MAP EXTREMA VARIABILITY DURING INITIAL PARTS OF QRS COMPLEX IN YOUNG PEOPLE KATARÍNA KOZLÍKOVÁ, JURAJ MARTINKA and JOZEF BULAS	507
ABNORMAL LEFT ATRIAL DEPOLARIZATION WAVEFRONT IN PATIENTS WITH PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION ASSESSED WITH MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY RAIJA KOSKINEN, MILLA KARVONEN, VILLE MÄNTYNEN, HEIKKI VÄÄNÄNEN, MARKKU MÄKIJÄRVI, JUKKA NENONEN, JUHA MONTONEN and LAURI TOIVONEN	512
FIFTY YEARS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES ON ELECTROCARDIOLOGY: THE HUNGARIAN CONTRIBUTION ISTVÁN PRÉDA and ZOLTÁN ANTALÓCZY	517
DEVELOPMENT OF A TRI-POLAR LAPLACIAN ELECTROCARDIO GRAM ELECTRODE USING NINE POINT FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD WALTER G. BESIO and RAJESH AAKULA	521
AUTOMATED LAPLACIAN ECG MOMENT OF ACTIVATION DETERMINATION ALGORITHM DURING PACING WALTER G. BESIO and ASHA K KOTA	525
DISCRIMINATIVE ROLE OF THE EXTREME VALUES OF THE ISOPOTENTIAL MAPS IN RBBB VERSUS LBBB DIAGNOSIS LESŁAW RUSIECKI, JÓZEF JAGIELSKI, MAŁGORZATA SOBIESZCZAŃSKA and DARIUSZ KAŁKA	529
ISOINTEGRAL MAP EXTREMA VARIABILITY DURING QRS COMPLEX AND ITS THIRDS IN YOUNG PEOPLE JURAJ MARTINKA, KATARÍNA KOZLÍKOVÁ and JOZEF BULAS	533
THE STT INTEGRAL IN DETECTION OF HEALED MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION ASSESSED WITH BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING PAULA VESTERINEN, HELENA HÄNNINEN, MILLA KARVONEN, KIRSI LAUERMA, MIIA HOLMSTRÖM, MARKKU MÄKIJÄRVI, HEIKKI VÄÄNÄNEN, JUKKA NENONEN and LAURI TOIVONEN	538
THE EFFECT OF PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY ARTERY INTERVENTION ON BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPS MIHALY MEDVEGY, ENDRE SZUCS, GABOR SIMONYI, TAMAS BAUERNFEIND, GABOR DURAY, KRISZTINA SZAKOLCZAI, ROBERT G. KISS, ROBERT J. BEDROS, REGINALD A. NADEAU and ISTVAN PREDA	542
HOW DOES SODIUM CHANNEL DYSFUNCTION RELATE TO REPOLARIZATION ABNORMALITIES IN THE RIGHT VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW TRACT IN BRUGADA SYNDROME? MIKI YOKOKAWA, WATARU SHIMIZU, HIROSHI TAKAKI, HIDEO OKAMURA, TAKASHI NODA, KIYOSHI OTOMO, KAZUHIRO SUYAMA, TAKASHI KURITA and SHIRO KAMAKURA	543
QRS ISOINTEGRAL MAPS IN A FOLLOW-UP OF THE PATIENTS WITH HYPERTENSIVE LEFT VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY MAŁGORZATA SOBIESZCZAŃSKA, DARIUSZ KAŁKA, JÓZEF JAGIELSKI, LESŁAW RUSIECKI and JANUSZ BOLANOWSKI	544
ASSESSMENT OF THE DIASTOLIC FUNCTION BY BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPS IN ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE TAMAS BAUERNFEIND, ISTVAN PREDA, ENDRE SZUCS, GABOR DURAY, GABOR SIMONYI, KRISZTINA SZAKOLCZAI, ROBERT G. KISS, ROBERT J. BEDROS and MIHALY MEDVEGY	548
SIMULATION AND MEASUREMENT OF SINGLE COMPONENT VERSUS THREE COMPONENT CARDIOMAGNETIC FIELDS JENS HAUEISEN, LUCA DI RIENZO, CESARE M. ARTURI, MARIO LIEHR and MATTHIAS GOERING	549
NON-INVASIVE ASSESSMENT OF ATRIAL WAVE LENGTH BY P WAVE SIGNAL AVERAGED ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY NOBUHIKO MAKINO, HIROKO MAEKAWA, TSUYOSHI SHIMONAGATA, NAOYUKI MISAKI, TAKAHISA YAMADA, MITSUTOSHI ASAI, HIDETAKA KIOKA, SHUNSUKE TAMAKI, TAKAKI MATSUMOTO and MASATAKE FUKUNAMI	550
ELECTRIC HEART FIELD CHANGES IN PATIENTS TREATED WITH DOSULEPINE O. KITTNAR, J. SLAVÍČEK, M. MLČEK, Š. HAVRÁNEK, A. DOHNALOVÁ, I. PACLT, E. KITZLEROVÁ and M. BALÍKOVÁ	551
THE NORMAL VARIABILITY OF THE QRS AUTOCORRELATION MAPS ALEXANDRU D. CORLAN and LUIGI DE AMBROGGI	557
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SIGNAL-AVERAGED ECG VARIABLES IN PRONE POSITION: COMPARISON WITH THOSE IN SUPINE POSITION YONGKEUN CHO, HYEONGSEOP KIM, JUNGHO HEO, MANKI PARK, DONG HEON YANG, HUN SIK PARK, SHUNG CHULL CHAE, JAE-EUN JUN and WEE-HYUN PARK	563
PARAMETRIC MODELING ANALYSIS OF ABNORMAL INTRA-QRS POTENTIALS IN SIGNAL-AVERAGED ECG CHUN-CHENG LIN, TEN-FANG YANG, CHIH-MING CHEN and ING-FANG YANG	567
SCREENIG OF LEFT VENTRICULAR FUNCTION BY SIGNAL-AVERAGED ELECTROCARDIOGRAM KOICHIRO AIHARA, YUJI NAKAZATO, YASUNOBU KAWANO, KAORU NAKAZATO, MASAYUKI YASUDA, TAKASHI TOKANO and HIROYUKI DAIDA	572
BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING TO IDENTIFY PATIENTS WITH EJECTION FRACTION IMPROVEMENT AFTER BIVENTRICULAR PACING NELSON SAMESIMA, CARLOS A. PASTORE, NANCY TOBIAS, ANISIO PEDROSA, LUIS F. MOREIRA, SILVANA NISHIOKA, MARTINO MARTINELLIF° and JOSE F. RAMIRES	574
NONINVASIVE ASSESSMENT OF ACTIVATION AND REPOLARIZATION DYNAMICS BY QRS AND QRST INTEGRAL MAPS GYÖRGY KOZMANN and KRISTÓF HARASZTI	585
BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING ELECTRO - TEMPORAL STUDY OF RESYNCHRONIZATION IN PATIENTS WITH LBBB AND HEART FAILURE: COMPARISON OF RIGHT AND LEFT VENTRICULAR ACTIVATION CARLOS ALBERTO PASTORE, NANCY TOBIAS, MARTINO MARTINELLI FILHO, ANISIO PEDROSA, SILVANA NISHIOKA, ROBERTO A. DOUGLAS, LUÍS FELIPE MOREIRA and JOSÉ FRANCHINI RAMIRES	590
THE DURATION OF THE QT INTERVAL AND HEART RATE IN MINIATURE SWINE MASAYOSHI KUWAHARA, MASATOSHI HASHIMOTO, HIROKAZU TSUBONE, EIJI KUMAGAI and MANABU TANIGAWA	608
BAZETT'S QT CORRECTION IS STILL NOT RECOMMENDED! EUAN MILLER and PETER W MACFARLANE	612
CIRCADIAN VARIATION OF THE QT INTERVAL IN PATIENTS WITH HEART FAILURE TATSUSHI UCHIYAMA, EIICHI WATANABE, KENJI YASUI, HIROSHI TAKEUCHI, TOSHIAKI TERASAWA, ITSUO KODAMA and HITOSHI HISHIDA	617
THE RESPONSE OF T-WAVE PARAMETER DURING EXERCISE TESTING IN PAEDIATRIC PATIENTS WITH QT PROLONGATION AND BIFID T-WAVE TORU AKAIKE and MARI IWAMOTO	621
ANALYSIS OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION BY AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTION AKIHIKO SHIMIZU, MASAHIRO ESATO, TAKESHI UEYAMA, RYOUSUKE KAMETANI, NORIKO INOUE, MASASHI KANEMOTO, AKIRA SAWA and MASUNORI MATSUZAKI	627
CHANGES IN QRS AMPLITUDE TO LEFT VENTRICULAR MASS RELATION IN RATS TREATED BY ANTIHYPERTENSIVE DRUGS L BACHAROVA, J KYSELOVIC, J KLIMAS and D KUCEROVA	636
ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY FAILS TO DIAGNOSE LEFT VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY ACCURATELY IN WOMEN HIKARI OCHI, SEIKO MIYATA, AKIKO NODA, MITSUNORI IWASE, SYOKO KUROKI, YASUO KOIKE, RIEKO ITO, HIROSHI YAMADA and MITSUHIRO YOKOTA	640
PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION OF ATRIAL DEPOLARIZATION ON THE BASIS OF DIPOLE ELECTROCARDIOTOPOGRAPHY (DECARTO) FOR DIAGNOSIS OF ATRIAL ENLARGEMENT L.I. TITOMIR, V.G. TRUNOV, E.A.I. AIDU, T.A. SAKHNOVA and E.V. BLINOVA	644
A DIFFERENCE OF TIME-FREQUENCY POWER SPECTRUM DURING QRS IN Q FROM NON-Q WAVE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION NAOKO ZENDA, TAKESHI TSUTSUMI, DAISUKE WAKATSUKI, FUMIKO YANAGISAWA, HISA SHIMOJIMA, YUKEI HIGASHI and YOUICHI TAKEYAMA	648
MYOCARDIAL SALVAGE EFFECTS OF PRIMARY ANGIOPLASTY UNDER DISTAL PROTECTION IN PATIENTS WITH MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION HIROTAKA KOMATSU, MASATO NAKAMURA, HISAO HARA and KAORU SUGI	653
AGE AND SEX DEPENDENT ST-T CRITERIA FOR ST ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION PETER W. MACFARLANE, BRIAN DEVINE, ELAINE CLARK, EUAN MILLER, JODAT SEYAL, DAVID W. BROWNE and DAVID R. HAMPTON	654
ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC MANIFESTATION OF LOCAL ISCHEMIA AT RIGHT VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW TRACT FUYUKI ASANO, MASAHIKO KONDO, KOHEI WAKABAYASHI, TOKUTADA SATO, HAJIME IDE, TAKESHI TSUTSUMI and YOUICHI TAKEYAMA	658
REPRODUCIBILITY OF THE ST/HR ANALYSIS DURING ECG TEST IN ASYMPTOMATIC MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN JARI VIIK, RAMI LEHTINEN and JAAKKO MALMIVUO	659
NON-UNIFORM DISCRETE ECG REPRESENTATION OPTIMISED FOR MEDICAL DATA FIDELITY PIOTR AUGUSTYNIAK	660
EVALUATION OF THE EXPERT 12-LEAD ECG ANALYSIS SYSTEM NORIMOTO ISOBE, MUTSUO KANEKO, MICHIHIRO TAKAHASHI, TOHRU IWATSUKA, NOBORU OKAMOTO, SHOUJI YASUl, YOSHIHIKO WATANABE, YASUHIRO ABO and YOSHIO ICHIHARA	665
TWELVE-LEAD ELECTROCARDIOGRAM TELEMONITORING DAMING WEI	670
SYNTHESIS OF 12-LEAD ECG FROM 3 EASI LEADS: INVESTIGATION OF POPULATION-SPECIFIC TRANSFORMATION COEFFICIENTS X. LIU, S. H. ZHOU, J. LIU, J. CHEN, K. QIU, J. W. WARREN, J. R. FITZ-CLARKE and B. M. HORÁČEK	675
HIGH-FREQUENCY SPECTRAL ANALYSIS IN SIGNAL-AVERAGED ECG TEN-FANG YANG, CHUN-CHENG LIN, CHIH-MING CHEN and ING-FANG YANG	679
ASSESSMENT OF SIGNAL-AVERAGED P-WAVE AS A PREDICTOR OF POSTOPERATIVE ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AFTER CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT SURGERY TOSHIKO NAKAI, YUJI KASAMAKI, TAKESHI YAMADA, KIMIE OKUBO, KOTARO TOKAI, KENICHI HASHIMOTO, AKIRA SEZAI, ICHIRO WATANABE, SATOSHI SAITO and KOICHI MATSUMOTO	684
DIFFERENT MANIFESTATION OF PREMATURE VENTRICULAR CONTRACTIONS BY THEIR ORIGIN SHIRO NAKAHARA, KAN TAKAYANAGI, TOSHIYUKI NAKATA, KAZUHIKO TANAKA, ITARU HISAUTI, TERUMI HAYASHI and SHIGENORI MOROOKA	685
PREDICTION OF MECHANISMS OF VENTRICULAR PREMATURE CONTRACTION (PVC) BY T WAVE ANALYSIS EIJI INO-OKA, SHIGEU YUMITA, HIROSHI SEKINO, YASUAKI OHTAKI, HIKARU INOOKA and KOUICHI SAGAWA	687
EVALUATIONIN OF THE AV NODAL CONDUCTION USING RR-INTERVAL PLOTTING IN AF-PATIENTS: ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH CARDIAC FUNCTION AKIKO CHISHAKI, HIROAKI CHISHAKI and KENJI SUNAGAWA	691
EVALUATION OF THE T-WAVE DURING EXERCISE-TESTING IN PATIENTS WITH IDIOPATHIC DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY (DCM) WITH AND WITHOUT BETA-BLOCKADES HIDEYUKI HARA, SHINICHI NIWANO, SHOJI HIRASAWA, TAKESHI SASAKI, NORIAKI IKEDA, HIDEO MIYAHARA and TOHRU IZUMI	696
MONITORING ELECTROCARDIOGRAMS VIA A MOBILE NETWORK SYSTEM USING CELLULAR PHONES XIN ZHU, WENXI CHEN, SHUXUE DING, HIKARU TSUCHIDA, MICHAEL COHEN and DAMING WEI	700
DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOMATIC NETWORK HOLTER ELECTROCARDIOGRAM ANALYSIS SYSTEM AKIMITSU AKAHORI and KOJI OGURI	705
EXCLUDING INCORRECT DETECTION ON ECG AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS USING SVM YASUSHI KIKAWA and KOJI OGURI	709
POWER TO DETECT PRIOR MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION BY ECG FINDINGS AT HEALTH EXAMINATION HUIMING ZHANG, HIDEAKI TOYOSHIMA, HIROSHI YATSUYA, KOJI TAMAKOSHI and TAKAAKI KONDO	713
14 Autonomic Nervous Activity
EXAGGERATION OF MORNING FLUCTUATION OF AUTONOMIC NERVOUS ACTIVITY IN THE VERY ELDERLY HEALTHY SUBJECTS HIROFUMI TASAKI, TAKUMI SERITA, CHIAKI UEYAMA, KOUEI KITANO, SHINJI SETO and KATSUSUKE YANO	719
GENDER DIFFERENCES IN AUTONOMIC MODULATION OF VENTRICULAR REPOLARIZATION IN HUMANS MIKIKO NAKAGAWA, TATSUHIKO OOIE, MASASHI ICHINOSE, HIDETOSHI YONEMOCHI and TETSUNORI SAIKAWA	720
RESPONSES TO HEAD-UP TILT TEST IN VASOVAGAL SYNCOPE AFTER ATENOLOL TREATMENT HYUNGSEOP KIM, JUNGHO HEO, DONGHEON YANG, HUNSIK PARK, YONGKEUN CHO, SHUNG-CHULL CHAE, JAE-EUN JUN and WEE-HYUN PARK	725
ASSESSMENT OF HOME ORTHOSTATIC SELF-TRAINING IN THE PREVENTION OF NEUROCARDIOGENIC SYNCOPE HARUHIKO ABE and YASUHIDE NAKASHIMA	730
15 Pacing
OPTIMAL AV DELAY IS NOT PREFERRED TO SPONTANEOUS AV CONDUCTION IN PATIENTS WITH PACEMAKER CHIKASHI SUGA, KAZUO MATSUMOTO, RITSUSHI KATO, TOSHIMASA TOSAKA, TORU TAMAKI, TETSUO YAMAZAKI and SHIGEYUKI NISHIMURA	737
MEASUREMENT OF INTRACARDIAC BIOIMPEDANCE IN RATE ADAPTIVE PACEMAKERS ALAR KUUSIK, RAUL LAND, MART MIN, TOOMAS PARVE and GUSTAV POOLA	738
VENTRICULAR PACING THRESHOLDS FOLLOWING HIGH-ENERGY VENTRICULAR DEFIBRILLATION SHOCKS YOSHIO YAMANOUCHI, SUNAO KODAMA, TAKEAKI OHTA, NATSUMI MORITO, EIJI YAHIRO, KEI MIYOSHI and HIDENORI URATA	743
PREVENTION OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION BY BIATRIAL PACING: THE OUTCOME AND THE ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANISM OF PREVENTION YOSHIHISA ENJOJI, TAKAO SAKATA, MAHITO NORO, TAKESHI NAKAE, NAOKI TEZUKA, KENTA KUMAGAI, TSUYOSHI SAKAI, HIDETOSHI ITAKURA, AKIYOSHI MORIYAMA and KAORU SUGI	744
16 Pediatric ECG
SIGNIFICANCE OF QT DISPERSION AND VENTRICULAR LATE POTENTIALS IN CHILDREN WITH MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY WALDEMAR BOBKOWSKI, JACEK ZACHWIEJA, BARTLOMIEJ MROZINSKI, AGNIESZKA NOWAK and ALDONA SIWINSKA	747
QT DISPERSION AND CORRECTED QT INTERVAL IN CHILDREN WITH CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE WALDEMAR BOBKOWSKI, AGNIESZKA NOWAK, JACEK ZACHWIEJA, BARTLOMIEJ MROZINSKI and ALDONA SIWINSKA	752
PDA-BASED SYSTEM FOR CARDIOLOGY HOME CARE AND PREGNANCY MONITORING PIOTR AUGUSTYNIAK	756
BENIGN ARRHYTHMIAS IN CHILDREN AND YOUTH CHRISTINA SUTESCU, RADU GRIGORE and IOANA STOIAN	761
DRUG SENSITIVITY AND ANTIARRHYTHMIC TREATMENT IN CHILDREN WITH IDIOPATHIC POLYMORPHIC VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA TOSHIAKI YASUDA, NAMIKO KOJIMA, DAICHI FUKUMI and MASAMI NAGASHIMA	768
EFFICACY OF 12 LEADS HOLTER MONITORING SYSTEM IN BRUGADA SYNDROME - MULTICENTER HEART SCREENING STUDY IN JAPAN - NAOKATA SUMITOMO, MASAMI NAGASHIMA, HIROYA USHINOHAMA, NAKAO KONISHI, SEIICHI SATO, SATOSHI YASUKOCHI, YOSHIHIDE NAKAMURA, NAOKI IZUMIDA, MASAO YOSHINAGA, KENSUKE KARASAWA, MAMORU AYUSAWA, HIROYUKI KATO and KENSUKE HARADA	769
A NEW INDEX FOR ASSESSMENT THE ABILITY OF MYOCARDIUM TO THE FIBRILLATION VLADIMIR KOBRIN, IRINA KONOVALOVA and MARINA TVERSKAYA	774
BIO-IMPEDANCE FDM-MODELING INSIDE HEART FOR APPLICATION IN IMPLANTED DEVICES RAUNO GORDON and ALAR KUUSIK	778
SUCCESSFUL BIVENTRICULAR PACING IN AN ELDERLY PATIENT WITH CARDIAC SARCOIDOSIS AT RISK OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE OSAMU OKAZAKI, MICHIAKI HIROE, NAOKI TEZUKA, MAHITO NORO, MITSUO KASHIDA, NOBUHARU AKATSUKA and YOSHIO YAZAKI	783
CHRONIC ANGIOTENSION II RECEPTOR BLOCKER DOES NOT ALTER VENTRICULAR DEFIBRILLATION THRESHOLDS YOSHIO YAMANOUCHI, SUNAO KODAMA, TAKEAKI OHTA, NATSUMI MORITO, EIJI YAHIRO, KEI MIYOSHI and HIDENORI URATA	791
VALIDATION OF QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE FOR ICD PATIENTS SOICHI TSUNODA, HARUHIKO ABE, TAKESHI MITSUHASHI and SATOSHI ISHIZUKA	792
PERFORMANCE OF THE CRITERIA FOR GENDER DIFFERENCES ON THE ECG EARLY VENTRICULAR REPOLARIZATION WAVE CONTOUR EMILIA P. SILVA, EDUARDO I. OLIVEIRA, PEDRO MARQUES, VITORIA MACHADO, MARIA GUIA FLORENTIM, SONIA RIBEIRO, MARIO G. LOPES and J. CORREIA CUNHA	796
AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION IN CHILDREN WITH CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE WALDEMAR BOBKOWSKI, AGNIESZKA NOWAK, JACEK ZACHWIEJA, BARTLOMIEJ MROZINSKI and ALDONA SIWINSKA	801
17 Modeling of Cardiac Electrical Activity
REFLECTIONS ON T WAVES A. VAN OOSTEROM	807
ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC IMAGING (ECGI): VALIDATION AND APPLICATION IN HUMANS YORAM RUDY	816
WHOLE HEART MODEL AND ECG/MCG INVERSE PROBLEM YOSHIWO OKAMOTO	817
CHANGES IN RABBIT HEART VULNERABILITY DURING PHASE 1A OF ACUTE GLOBAL ISCHEMIA NATALIA TRAYANOVA and BLANCA RODRIGUEZ	818
SIMULATED EPICARDIAL POTENTIAL MAPS WITH A MEMBRANE-BASED BIDOMAIN MODEL OF THE HUMAN HEART MARK POTSE, BRUNO DUBÉ, ERIC BÉLANCER, JACQUES RICHER and RAMESH M. GULRAJANI	827
ANALYSIS OF QT INTERVAL PROLONGATION BY SIMULATION OF REPOLARIZATION PROCESS BASED ON KCNQ1 AND KCNE1 EXPRESSION EXPERIMENT TAKAHIRO YAMAGUCHI, KAICHIRO KAMIYA, TATSUHIKO ARAFUNE, KATSUHIRO OUCHI, EICHI WATANABE, HARUO HONJO, ITSUO KODAMA, NITARO SHIBATA and ICHIRO SAKUMA	831
MECHANISMS OF SHOCK-INDUCED ARRHYTHMOGENESIS: ROLE OF TISSUE DISCONTINUITY AND ELECTROPORATION IN THE INITIATION OF FOCAL REPETITIVE POSTSHOCK ACITVATIONS TAKASHI ASHIHARA and NATALIA TRAYANOVA	832
18 Ablation
NEW ABLATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR VT ANDRE D'AVILA	839
CATHETER ABLATION OF PRIMARY VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION: MAPPING METHODS AND THE MECHANISM OF CATHETER ABLATION AKIHIKO NOGAMI	841
ENDOCARDIAL ELECTROANATOMICAL SUBSTRATE AND CATHETER ABLATION IN PATIENTS WITH NONISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY AND MONOMORPHIC VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA KAZUHIRO SATOMI	852
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