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Edited by Igor Singer, S. Serge Barold, and A. John Camm. 908 pp., illustrated. Armonk, N.Y., Futura, 1998. $125. ISBN 0-87993-6908.

The disappointing results of pharmacologic therapy in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias have been an important stimulus for the development of nonpharmacologic approaches to the management of rhythm disturbances. This book presents these approaches in a logical, easily understandable way.

The book has four sections. The first discusses the use of catheter ablation in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. This is an attractive form of therapy because it may (and frequently does) result in a cure, which is rare in cardiology. Most of our therapeutic efforts are palliative, made with the hope that the result will not only improve the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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