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Advances in Noninvasive Electrocardiographic Monitoring Techniques Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine Series - Advances in Noninvasive Electrocardiographic Monitoring Techniques Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine Series This multiauthored text is an overview of current developments in noninvasive electrocardiography monitoring techniques. The papers were presented at the 8th International Congress on Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology. The purpose is to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state and future developments in noninvasive electrocardiographic monitoring techniques. The editors' objectives are met. Clinician scientists in the field of electrocardiographic techniques will find this text most useful, but cardiologists and internal medicine physicians who regularly interpret electrocardiograms will find it very interesting. This text is divided into sections on basic research in pathophysiology, the electrocardiogram, ischemic heart disease implications, methods, heart rate variability, exercise electrocardiography, cardiopulmonary exercise testing, blood pressure monitoring, and even magnetocardiography. Contributors present analyses utilizing nonlinear dynamics, high resolution electrocardiographic signaling, and cardiac computer models. The text has good sections on the long QT interval problems and the effects of the autonomic nervous system as measured by baroreflex sensitivity and heart rate variability. There are also interesting discussions on T wave alternans (T wave alternans may soon be available on routine ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring). Baroreceptor sensitivity and heart rate variability are considered markers of cardiac stability of autonomic activity. QT analysis can be very difficult because of the problem of evaluating the end of the T wave, but it may have usefulness in evaluation of QT interval dispersion. The section on ischemia isparticularly interesting with evaluations of electron beam computer tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, as well as technesium pyrophosphate, thallium, and PET scanning. The methods portions of these areas are particularly interesting and important to different aspects of electrocardiographic monitoring. Illustrations and graphs are particularly plentiful and helpful. The index is well done and detailed. This is a welcome addition to the literature on the electrocardiogram. The editors show the broad spectrum of noninvasive electrocardiographic techniques available to the clinician and the clinician scientists. Advances in Noninvasive Electrocardiographic Monitoring Techniques is a collection of current information presented by a group of international experts in the science and practice of noninvasive electocardiography. An outgrowth of the Biennial International Congress on Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology held in Ulm, Germany, in May 1998. The 46 papers provide a snapshot of the field at the end of the century for clinical cardiologists and internists who use electrocardiographic procedures in managing their patients, researchers actively involved in the field, and students who will be working in it. They cover physiology and pathophysiology from genes and phenotypes to the autonomic nervous system, aspects investigated by different methods such as P wave and QRS and T wave alternans/repolarization, ischemic heart disease, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and other methods, and non linear dynamics and newer signal detection and analysis techniques. Osterhues, Hans H. (Univ of Ulm); Hombach, Vinzenz (Univ of Ulm); Moss, Arthur J. (Univ of Rochester)