Andrew L. Wit

Preface With the development of the catheter technique for recording His bundle electrocardiograms, 1968 ushered in a new era in cardiac electrophysiology. This was a giant step forward, which enabled the verification in man of the mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias derived from studies in...

Preface On the Origin of Ischemic Heart Disease, Ventricular Fibrillation, and Sudden Death From our viewpoint today, it seems remarkable that it took such a long period of time before it was widely recognized in the 1960s that sudden death in patients with coronary artery disease is often...