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MEETING HIGHLIGHTS

Highlights of Heart Rhythm 2004, the Annual Scientific Sessions of the Heart Rhythm Society: May 19 to 22, 2004, in San Francisco, California

Anne B. Curtis, MD, FACC^*,*, William T. Abraham, MD, FACC, Peng-Sheng Chen, MD, Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, MD, FACC, Andrew E. Epstein, MD, FACC^||, Paul A. Friedman, MD, FACC^¶, Stefan H. Hohnloser, MD, FACC^#, Ronald J. Kanter, MD^** and William G. Stevenson, MD, FACC

^* Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
Department of Medicine, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
^|| Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
^¶ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
^# Division of Cardiology, J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
^** Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Manuscript received July 6, 2004; revised manuscript received July 13, 2004, accepted July 13, 2004.

^* Reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Anne B. Curtis, University of Florida, 1600 S.W. Archer Road, Box 100277, Gainesville, Florida 32610 (Email: curtisa{at}medicine.ufl.edu).

Heart Rhythm 2004, the 25th Annual Scientific Sessions of the Heart Rhythm Society (formerly the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology), met in San Francisco in May 2004. The meeting is the world's premier forum for the presentation of research and the exchange of state-of-the-art information in cardiac electrophysiology and pacing. Major new research findings were presented on the value of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy, noninvasive methods for risk stratification, treatment of vasovagal syncope, radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation, resynchronization therapy for heart failure, and new insights from basic science into the mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias.

Abbreviations and Acronyms   AF = atrial fibrillation   AV = atrioventricular   Cai = intracellular calcium   CRT = cardiac resynchronization therapy   DCM = dilated cardiomyopathy   ECG = electrocardiographic   HCM = hypertrophic cardiomyopathy   ICD = implantable cardioverter-defibrillator   LV = left ventricular   LVEF = left ventricular ejection fraction   MI = myocardial infarction   NYHA = New York Heart Association   PV = pulmonary vein   QRSd = QRS duration   RF = radiofrequency   RV = right ventricular   TWA = T-wave alternans   VT = ventricular tachycardia

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