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ISCE 1998 Sessions and Poster Session Speakers
| Session I | |
COMPUTER MODELS OF CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA Session Chair Kenichi Harumi Showa University Fugigaoka Hospital Tokyo Japan Session Co-Chair Yoram Rudy Case Western Reserve University Cleveland Ohio USA Kenichi Harumi, Showa University Fugigaoka Hospital, Tokyo Japan Overview Yoram Rudy, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio USA Cardiac Conduction: An Interplay between Membrane and Gap Junction Raimond L. Winslow, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore Maryland USA Mechanism of Prevention of Cardiac Arrhythmia from the Cell Model Jose Jalife, SUNY Health Science Center of Pharmacology, Syracuse New York USA Effects of Ischemia on Wave Propagation and Action Potential Duration Gradients Bradley J. Roth, Vanderbilt University, Nashville Tennessee USA Bi-domain Models of Cardiac Tissue Andrew D. McCulloch, University of California, San Diego California USA Modeling Excitation-Contraction Coupling at the Cellular Level Natalia Trayanova, Tulane University, New Orleans Louisiana USA Modelling Defibrillation |
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| Poster Session 1 | |
James J. Bailey, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Maryland USA Report of NHLBI Workshop in ECG Database Utilization Konrad Brockmeier, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg Germany Magnetocardiography - State of the Art Laura Burattini, University of Rochester, Rochester New York USA Detection of Non-stationary T-Wave Alternans: New Correlation Method Compared to Spectral Method Lene Holmvang, Righospitalet, Copenhagen Denmark Relative Contributions of a Single Admission 12 Lead ECG and 24 Hours Continuous Vector Cardiographic Monitoring for Early Risk Stratification in Patients with Unstable Coronary Artery Disease Jari Hyttinen, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere Finland Estimation of the Number of Dipole Sources for Accurate Simulation of Electrocardiography Masahiko Kondo, Showa University Fujigaoka Hospital, Yokohama Japan Simulation of U Wave using Three Dimensional Computer Heart Model with M-cell Yoshiwo Okamoto, Chiba Institute of Technology, Chiba Japan Simulation of Reentrant Activities in Cardiac Muscle Utilizing Active Membrane Models Combined with Bi-domain Model Olle Pahlm, Lund University, Lund Sweden Analysis of High-frequency QRS Potentials for Detecting Acute Coronary Occlusion Andrew Voss, University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Germany Dilative Cardiomyopathy Suppresses the Effect of Gender on Heart Rate Yoshihiko Watanabe, Fujita Health University, Aichi Japan New Approach to Predict the Patients Prone to Life-threatening Arrhythmias after Acute Myocardial Infarction J. Y. Zhang, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo Japan The Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluation of the Pen-Size Handy Transtelephonic Electrocardiography |
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| Session II | |
MECHANISMS OF FIBRILLATION AND DEFIBRILLATION Session Chair Janice L. Jones Georgetown University Washington DC USA Session Co-Chair Douglas J. Lang CPI/Guidant St. Paul Minnesota USA Janice L. Jones, Georgetown University, Washington DC USA Overview Peng-Sheng Chen Focal Source Hypothesis of Atrial Fibrillation Michael D. Lesh, University of California, San Francisco California USA Regional Differences in the Spatiotemporal Organization of AF Peng-Wie Hsia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond Virginia USA Short-term Vectorcardiographical Spatial Organization Is Related with Peak Shock Outcome William Hsu, CPI Guidant, St. Paul Minnesota USA Synchronized Shocks Lower Defibrillation Energy Requirement Janice L. Jones, Georgetown University, Washington DC USA Can Shocks Synchronized to Action Potentials in Low Gradient Regions Improve Both Internal and Out-of-hospital Defbrillation? |
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| Session III | |
EXTERNAL MARKERS OF MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY Session Chair Michael Domanski NIH/NHLBI Bethesda Maryland USA Session Co-Chair David Mortara Mortara Instrument, Inc. Milwaukee Wisconsin USA Michael Domanski, NIH/NHLBI, Bethesda Maryland USA Overview Michael Domanski, NIH/NHLBI, Bethesda Maryland USA Sudden Cardiac Death Prevention: State of the Art Jan A. Kors, Erasmus University, Rotterdam The Netherlands T-loop Morphology as a Marker for Cardiac Events in the Elderly Wojciech Zareba, University of Rochester, Rochester New York USA TU Wave Morphology and Risk of Cardiac Events in the Long QT Syndrome Patients Jan van Bemmel, Erasmus University, Rotterdam The Netherlands I4C for the Collection and Documentation of Patient Data in Cardiology Peter M. Okin, Cornell University Medical College, New York New York USA Prognostic Value of QT Dispersion in Chronic Mitral Regurgitation Peter W. Macfarlane, Glasgow University, Glasgow Scotland The Prognostic Value of the ECG in WOSCOPS |
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| Poster Session 2 | |
Ljuba Bacharova, Slovak Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases, Bratislava Slovak Republic Specific Potential and Left Ventricular Mass in Congenital Aortic Stenosis Joao Freitas, Centro de Estudos da Funcao Autonomica, Porto Portugal Baroreflex Sensitivity Plays a Crucial Role in the Occurance of Neurocardiogenic Syncope Mark Harbinson, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast United Kingdom Transvenous Catheter Cardioversion with Long Duration Rounded Waveforms - Initial Findings Peter Hubka, Institute of Pathophysiology, Bratislava Slovak Republic High Resolution Electrocardiography in Dogs Jari Hyttinen, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere Finland Massive Parallel Processing Algorithm for Accurate Finite Difference Element Modelling of the Forward Electrocardiographic Problems Rami Lehtinen, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere Finland Artifical Neural Network for the Exercise Electrocardiographic Detection of Coronary Artery Disease Ian B. A. Menown, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast Northern Ireland Non-invasive Detection of Reperfusion by Body Surface Mapping following Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Myocardial Infarction Kazuo Nakazawa, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Osaka Japan Dynamics of Spiral Waves on the Excitable Media Provided by FitzHugh-Nagumo Type Equations Tsunetoyo Namba, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Osaka Japan Duration of Relative Refractoriness as Important Factor for Atrial Defibrillation: Speculation from Computer Simulation Chris Nugent, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, County Antrim,Northern Ireland 12-lead ECG Classification Employing Bi-group Neural Networks Kuniaki Otsuka, Tokyo Women’s Medical College, Tokyo Japan Chronomes (Rhythms, Chaos and Age and Disease Trends) of Heart Rate Variability (HRV) in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) Robert Warner, Syracuse VAMC, Syracuse New York USA Electrocardiographic Diagnosis using Non-Parametric Statistical Analysis |
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| Session IV | |
DEVICES AND RF ABLATION FOR ATRIAL ARRHYTHMIA CONTROL Session Chair Michael D. Lesh University of California San Francisco California USA Session Co-Chair Walter Olson Medtronic, Inc. Minneapolis Minnesota USA Michael D. Lesh, University of California, San Francisco California USA Prospects for Catheter-Based Cure of AF Jonathan Langberg, Emory University, Atlanta Georgia USA Novel Signal Processing to Determine Severity and Prognosis of Atrial Fibrillation Arne SippensGroenewegen, University of California, San Francisco California USA Body Surface Mapping of Atrial Arrhythmias: Assistance in Catheter Ablation David Wilber, University of Chicago, Chicago Illinois USA Macroscopic Structural and Spatial Determinants of Atrial Arrhythmias: Insights from Electroanatomical Mapping Jerry Griffin, InControl, Inc., Redmond Washington USA The Implantable Atrial Defibrillator: Clinical Trials Stephanie Caswell Schuckers, West Virginia University, Morgantown West Virginia USA Use of Approximated Entropy Measurements to Classify Atrial and Ventricular Tachycardia and Fibrillation |
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| Session V | |
SELECTED PAPERS FROM ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS Session Chair Fred Kornreich VUB School of Medicine Brussels Belgium Session Co-Chair Paul D. Kligfield Cornell University Medical Center New York NY USA Fred Kornreich, VUB School of Medicine, Brussels Belgium Overview R. Martin Arthur, Washington University, St. Louis Missouri USA Improved Estimation of Epicardial Potentials from Body-surface Maps using Individualized Torso Models Laura Burattini, University of Rochester, Rochester New York USA T Wave Alternans Features in Coronary Artery Disease and Long QT Syndrome Patients Tilman Eberle, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg Germany Prediction of Normal QT Intervals in Children Lene Holmvang, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen Denmark Differences between Local Investigator and Core-Laboratory Interpretation of the Admission ECG in a Large Multicenter Trial of Patients with Unstable Coronary Artery Disease. A TRIM Substudy Ken Lee, Cornell Medical College, New York New York USA Precordial QT Disperson in Normal Subjects: Local Effect or Projection Phenomenon? Gerard van Herpen, Erasmus University, Rotterdam The Netherlands QT Dispersion Explained by T-loop Morphology |
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| Poster Session 3 | |
James J. Bailey, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Maryland USA Risk Stratification after Myocardial Infarction: Predicted Probabilitiy using Different ECG Modalities Mark Harbinson, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast United Kingdom ECG Changes after Direct Current Cardioversion of Atrial Fibrillation by the Transthoracic and Transvenous Routes Peter Macfarlane, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow Scotland Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Ischaemia using Probabilistic Methods Ian Menown, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast United Kingdom Body Surface Mapping in Acute Inferior Myocardial Infarction: Diagnosis of Right-Ventricular and Posterior Wall Involvement Akihiko Sasaki, Tokyo Medical College Hospital, Tokyo Japan Comparison of Spatial Velocity Electrocardiogram with Resting Thallium-201 Imaging and Echocardiogram in Detecting Effort Angina Pectoris R. J. A. Schijvenaars, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam The Netherlands The Use of ECG Stability Analysis in Serial ECG Classification Ronald Stickney, Physio-Control Corporation, Redmond Washington USA Accuracy of an Automated External Defibrillator during Use for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Hideo Takayama, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo Japan Very Transient Change of High Frequency Components of QRS Complex May Be Arrhythmogenic Junji Toyama, Nagoya University, Nagoya Japan Prognostic Significance of Complex Ventricular Arrhythmias in Successfully Reperfused and Conservatively Treated Patients with Myocardial Infarction Robert Warner, Syracuse VAMC, Syracuse New York USA Optimizing the Use of Available Digital Data in Interpreting Electrocardiograms |
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| Session VI | |
JOS WILLEMS YOUNG INVESTIGATORS COMPETITION Session Chair Benjamin Scherlag University of Oklahoma Health Science Center Oklahoma City Oklahoma USA Session Co-Chair Sophia Zhou Hewlett Packard Corporation Andover Massachusetts USA Jean-Philippe Couderc, University of Rochester Heart Research, Rochester New York USA Wavelet Analysis of Short-term Beat-to-beat Variability of Repolarization in LQTS Patients with SCN5A Sodium Channel Mutation Rok Hren, University of Utah, Salt Lake City Utah USA Localization of the Site of Origin of Ventricular Tachycardia using Simulated QRS Isointegral Maps as Templates Osamu Okazaki, University of Utah, Salt Lake City Utah USA A Simulation Study of Torsade de Points with M Cells Julie Thompson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michigan USA Ventriculoatrial Conduction Metrics for Classification of Ventricular Tachycardia with 1:1 Retrograde Conduction in Dual-chambers Sensing Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators |
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| Session VII | |
IDENTIFICATION OF BEST ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC LEADS FOR DIAGNOSING ACUTE ISCHEMIA Session Chair Barbara J. Drew University of California San Francisco California USA Session Co-Chair Shankara Reddy Marquette Medical Systems Milwaukee Wisconsin USA Barbara J. Drew, University of California, San Francisco California USA Overview Fred Kornreich, Free University of Brussels, Brussels Belgium Best Leads for Detecting Anterior and Inferior Wall Ischemia by Analysis of Body Surface Potential Maps Robert Zalenski, Wayne State University, Detroit Michigan USA Value of Posterior and Right Ventricular Leads in Diagnosing Acute Myocardial Infarction Jai B. Agarwal, Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center, New Brunswick New Jersey USA Routine Use of a 15-Lead Electrocardiogram for Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with Chest Pain Shankara Reddy, Marquette, Inc., Milwaukee Wisconsin USA Normal Limits of ST Measurements in Posterior ECG Leads and Their Use in Detecting Acute Myocardial Infarction Ian B. A. Menown, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast United Kingdom Body surface Map Models for Early Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction Barbara J. Drew, University of California, San Francisco California USA Are All 12 Electrocardiographic Leads Necessary to Monitor Patients for On-going Ischemia Following Acute Myocardial Infarction or Catheter-Based Coronary Interventions? |
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| Session VIII | |
AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS Session Chair Terence D. Valenzuela University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix Arizona USA Session Co-Chair Robert Niskanen Physio-Control, Inc. Redmond Washington USA Terence D. Valenzuela, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix Arizona USA Overview Terence D. Valenzuela, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix Arizona USA Targeted First Responders Use of AEDs James Taylor, Physio-Control, Inc., Redmond Washington USA ECG Classification Algorithm in a Real World Automated External Defibrillator Carole Carey, US Food and Drug Administration, Rockville MD USA FDA Regulations and their Impact on Widespread Use of AEDs James E. Brewer, SurVivaLink Corporation, Minneapolis Minnesota USA Novel Methods for the Detection of Artifact in ECG Signals Jim Russell, Hewlett Packard Corporation, McMinnville Oregon USA Hewlett Packard Shock Advisory Algorithm: Development and Testing |