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Edited by Nabil El-Sherif and Jean Lekieffre. 348 pp. Armonk, N.Y., Futura, 1997. $95. ISBN 0-87993-652-5.

Practical Management of Cardiac Arrhythmias, which is intended to offer "a concise, yet all-inclusive, review of the up-to-date strategies in the management of cardiac arrhythmias," has three sections, each on a different aspect of therapy: pharmacologic strategies, catheter-ablation techniques, and management with surgery and implantable cardioverter–defibrillators. Rather than a comprehensive overview of the evaluation and treatment of arrhythmias, this book consists of selected topics in management.

The first section of the book, on pharmacologic treatment of supraventricular and ventricular tachycardias, rather nicely reviews certain controversies in the management of arrhythmias. For example, the difficulties in finding effective medical treatment . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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