Journal of Electrocardiology
Official Journal of the International Society for Computerized Electrocardiology and the International Society of Electrocardiology
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Ronald H. Startt Selvester, MD Long Beach, CA
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Margaret Brandt
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Anil Bhandari, MD, Los Angeles, CA Ihor Gussak, MD, PhD, FACC, Bridgewater, NJ Michael M. Laks, MD, Torrance, CA Adrian H. Shandling, MD, Long Beach, CA Galen S. Wagner, MD, Durham, NC
EMERITUS CONSULTANTS
Alberto Benchimol, MD, Phoenix, AZ Robert A. Bruce, MD, Seattle, WA Paul M. Zoll, MD, Boston, MA
EDITORIAL CONSULTANTS
Staffan Ahnve, MD, PhD, Stockholm, Sweden Toshio Akiyama, MD, Rochester, NY Evangelos T. Angelakos, MD, PhD, Philadelphia, PA Charles Antzelevitch, PhD, Utica, NY James J. Bailey, MD, Bethesda, MD L. E. Baker, PhD, Austin, TX S. Serge Barold, MD, Rochester, NY Edward J. Berbari, PhD, Indianapolis, IN Valmik Bhargava, PhD, La Jolla, CA Henry Blackburn, MD, Minneapolis, MN Robert A. Bruce, MD, Seattle, WA C. A. Caceres, MD, Washington, DC Agustin Castellanos, Jr., MD, Miami, FL Bernard Chaitman, MD, St. Louis, MO Rory Childers, MD, Chicago, IL Marie J. Cowan, PhD, Seattle, WA Luigi De Ambroggi, MD, Milan, Italy Fernando de Padua, MD, Lisbon, Portugal David K. Detweiler, DVM, Philadelphia, PA Martin Dolgin, MD, New York, NY Leonard S. Dreifus, MD, Philadelphia, PA Barbara J. Drew, PhD, San Francisco, CA Myrvin H. Ellestad, MD, Long Beach, CA Ross D. Fletcher, MD, Washington, DC David B. Geselowitz, PhD, University Park, PA Leonard S. Gettes, PhD, Chapel Hill, NC Ary L. Goldberger, MD, Boston, MA Nora F. Goldschlager, MD, San Francisco, CA Joseph A. Gomes, MD, FACC, New York, NY Ihor Gussak, MD, PhD, FACC, Bridgewater, NJ Kenichi Harumi, MD, Tokyo, Japan Masayasu Hiraoka, MD, Tokyo, Japan Morrison Hodges, MD, Minneapolis, MN Leo G. Horan, MD, Augusta, GA J. Willis Hurst, MD, Atlanta, GA Raymond Ideker, MD, PhD, Durham, NC Harold L. Kennedy, MD, St. Louis, MO Edmund Keung, MD, San Francisco, CA Paul Kligfield, MD, New York, NY Fred Kornreich, MD, Brussels, Belgium Jan A. Kors, PhD, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Mitchell Krucoff, MD, FACC, Durham, NC Jerome Liebman, MD, Cleveland, OH Arthur M. Levy, MD, Burlington, VT Robert Lux, PhD, Salt Lake City, UT Peter W. Macfarlane, MD, Glasgow, Scotland Robert S. MacLeod, PhD, Salt Lake City, UT William J. Mandel, MD, Los Angeles, CA Henry J. L. Marriott, MD, St. Petersburg, FL Gustavo A. Medrano, MD, Mexico City, Mexico David M. Mirvis, MD, Memphis, TN Peter M. Okin, MD, New York, NY Carlos Alberto Pastore, MD, Sao Paulo, Brazil Pentti M. Rautaharju, MD, PhD, Winston-Salem, NC Shankara B. Reddy, PhD, FACC, Waukesha, WI Philip R. Reid, MD, Indianapolis, IN Ivan Ruttkay-Nedecký, MD, Bratislava, Slovak Republic Ernst Schubert, MD, Chemnitz, Germany Ralph C. Scott, MD, Cincinnati, OH Madison Spach, MD, Durham, NC Nicholas Sperelakis, PhD, Cincinnati, OH Borys Surawicz, MD, Indianapolis, IN Steven Swiryn, MD, Evanston, IL Bruno Taccardi, MD, Salt Lake City, UT L. I. Titomir, PhD, Moscow, Russia Gerard van Herpen, MD, PhD, Bilthoven, Netherlands Adriaan van Oosterom, PhD, Nijmegen, Netherlands Mario Vassalle, MD, Brooklyn, NY Albert L. Waldo, MD, Cleveland, OH Yoshio Watanabe, MD, Aichi, Japan Arnold M. Weissler, MD, Rochester, MN Roger A. Winkle, MD, Palo Alto, CA Wojciech Zareba, MD, Rochester, NY
A Churchill Livingstone® Journal
Founded in 1968 by Zang A. Zao, MD, and Eugene Lepeschkin, MD
FULL TEXT