Professor Hein J.J. Wellens: 33 Years of Cardiology and Arrhythmology

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
The role of premature beats in the initiation and the termination of supraventricular tachycardia in the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome....Pages 1-20
Supraventricular tachycardia with left aberrant conduction due to retrograde invasion into the left bundle branch....Pages 21-26
Electrical stimulation of the heart in patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, Type A....Pages 27-42
Electrical stimulation of the heart in patients with ventricular tachycardia....Pages 43-53
Ventricular fibrillation occurring on arousal from sleep by auditory stimuli....Pages 55-62
Effect of digitalis on atrioventricular conduction and circus-movement tachycardias in patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome....Pages 63-68
Further observations on ventricular tachycardia as studied by electrical stimulation of the heart....Pages 69-77
Factors influencing prognosis of bundle branch block complicating acute antero-septal infarction....Pages 79-85
Epicardial mapping and surgical treatment in Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome Type A....Pages 87-98
Lidocaine in the prevention of primary ventricular fibrillation....Pages 99-104
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome and atrial fibrillation....Pages 105-112
The role of an accessory atrioventricular pathway in reciprocal tachycardia....Pages 113-131
Effect of amiodarone in the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome....Pages 133-142
Observations on mechanisms of ventricular tachycardia in man....Pages 143-153
Value and limitations of thallium-201 scintigraphy in the acute phase of myocardial infarction....Pages 155-161
Effect of procainamide, propranolol and verapamil on mechanism of tachycardia in patients with chronic recurrent ventricular tachycardia....Pages 163-172
The value of the electrocardiogram in the differential diagnosis of a tachycardia with a widened QRS complex....Pages 173-181
The anatomical substrates of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome....Pages 183-196
Reciprocal tachycardias using accessory pathways with long conduction times....Pages 197-213
Use of ajmaline in patients with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome to disclose short refractory period of the accessory pathway....Pages 215-219
Initiation and termination of ventricular tachycardia by supraventricular stimuli....Pages 221-230
Spontaneous termination of circus movement tachycardia using an atrioventricular accessory pathway: incidence, site of block and mechanisms....Pages 231-243
Characteristic electrocardiographic pattern indicating a critical stenosis high in left anterior descending coronary artery in patients admitted because of impending myocardial infarction....Pages 245-252
Pacemaker related tachycardia....Pages 253-263
Inter- and intra atrial dissociation during spontaneous atrial flutter: Evidence for a focal origin of the arrhythmia....Pages 265-273
Extrastimulus-related shortening of the first postpacing interval in digitalis-induced ventricular tachycardia: observations during programmed electrical stimulation in the conscious dog....Pages 275-295
Atrial tachycardia facilitating initiation of ventricular tachycardia....Pages 297-303
Localization of the accessory pathway in the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome from the ventriculo-atrial conduction time of right ventricular apical extrasystoles....Pages 305-312
Value of QRS alternation in determining the site of origin of narrow QRS supraventricular tachycardia....Pages 313-319
Observations on the antidromic type of circus movement tachycardia in the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome....Pages 321-330
Multiple circus movement tachycardias with multiple accessory pathways....Pages 331-340
Value of lead V 4 R for recognition of the infarct coronary artery in acute inferior myocardial infarction.....Pages 341-345
Importance of modes of electrical termination of ventricular tachycardia for the selection of implantable antitachycardia devices....Pages 347-354
Clinical, angiographic, and electrophysiologic findings in patients with aborted sudden death as compared with patients sustained ventricular tachycardia after myocardial infarction....Pages 355-364
Effects of early reperfusion in acute myocardial infarction on arrhythmias induced by programmed stimulation: A prospective, randomized study....Pages 365-375
Reversibility of tachycardia-induced left ventricular dysfunction after closed-chest catheter ablation of the atrioventricular function for intractable atrial fibrillation....Pages 377-380
Value of admission electrocardiogram in predicting outcome of thrombolytic therapy in acute myocardial infarction....Pages 381-392
Indications for use of intracardiac electrophysiogic studies for the diagnosis of site of origin and mechanism of tachycardias....Pages 393-400
Usefulness of the accelerated idioventricular rhythm as a marker for myocardial necrosis and reperfusion during thrombolytic therapy in acute myocardial infarction....Pages 401-410
Prognosis of patients with ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation: Role of the underlying etiology....Pages 411-422
Ventricular fibrillation in six adults without overt heart disease....Pages 423-430
Nonischemic ventricular tachycardia....Pages 431-442
Reversibility of tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy after cure of incessant supraventricular tachycardia....Pages 443-451
Clinical and electrophysiologic characteristics of patients with antidromic circus movement tachycardia in the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome....Pages 453-467
The electrocardiogram in patients with multiple accessory atrioventricular pathways....Pages 469-476
Atrial fibrillation in patients with an accessory pathway: importance of the conduction properties of the accessory pathway....Pages 477-484
Clinical presentation and prognosis of left main coronary artery disease in the 1980s....Pages 485-495
Incidence and timing of recurrences of sudden death and ventricular tachycardia during antiarrhythmic drug treatment after myocardial infarction....Pages 497-501
The electrocardiographic, clinical, and electrophysiologic spectrum of idiopathic monomorphic ventricular tachycardia....Pages 503-512
Long-term follow-up (12 to 35 weeks) after dynamic cardiomyoplasty....Pages 513-525
Effects on the signal-averaged electrocardiogram of opening the coronary artery by thrombolytic therapy or percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty during acute myocardial infarction....Pages 527-533
Value of the 12-lead electrocardiogram in arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia, and absence of correlation with echocardiographic findings....Pages 535-541
Improvement in left ventricular function by ablation of atrioventricular nodal conduction in selected patients with lone atrial fibrillation....Pages 543-548
High-density mapping of electrically induced atrial fibrillation in humans....Pages 549-567
Reproducible induction of early afterdepolarizations and torsade de pointes arrhythmias by d -sotalol and pacing in dogs with chronic atrioventricular block....Pages 569-581
Cure of interfascicular re-entrant ventricular tachycardia by ablation of the anterior fascicle of the left bundle branch....Pages 583-590
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the 1990s: A population-based study in the Maastricht area on incidence, characteristics and survival....Pages 591-600
New method for nonfluoroscopic endocardial mapping in humans....Pages 601-609
Atrioverter: an implantable device for the treatment of atrial fibrillation....Pages 611-620
Sudden cardiac death....Pages 621-645
Molecular genetics of inherited long QT syndromes....Pages 647-655
Effect of right atrial isthmus ablation on the occurrence of atrial fibrillation....Pages 657-665
Effect of butorphanol tartrate on shock-related discomfort during internal atrial defibrillation....Pages 667-674