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Proceedings of the 31st International Congress on Electrocardiology
Advances in
ELECTROCARDIOLOGY 2004 27 June - 1 July 2004
Kyoto, Japan
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Masayasu Hiraoka Tokyo Medical and Dental Universitg Tokyo
Satoshi Ogawa Keio University, Tokyo
ltsuo Kodama Nagoya Universitg Nagoya
Hiroshi lnoue Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical UniversitL: Toyama
Hiroshi Kasanuki Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo
Takao Katoh Nippon Medical UniversitL: Tokyo
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The Organizing Committee President Honorary President Honorary Vice-president Vice-president Secretary General
Masayasu Hiraoka (Tokyo) Kazuo Yamada (Nagoya) Tsuneaki Sugimoto (Tokyo), Shoji Yasui (Nagoya) Junji Toyama (Toyama) Satoshi Ogawa (Tokyo)
Committee Chairpersons Scientific Program committee ltsuo Kodama (Nagoya) Program committee Hiroshi lnoue (Toyama) Fund-Raising Committee Hiroshi Kasanuki (Tokyo) Finance Committee Yoshifusa Aizawa (Niigata) General Affairs Committee Takao Katoh (Tokyo) Public Relations and Registration Committee Tohru Ohe (Okayama) Shiro Kamakura (Osaka) Exhibition Committee Site Management and Liaison Committee Minoru Horie (Shiga)
International Society of Electrocardiology President Past President Honorarynreasurer Council Members
L. de Ambroggi (Italy) J. Liebman (U.S.A.) P.W. Macfarlane (U.K.)
C.Antzelevitch (USA) L. Bacharova (Slovak Republic) E.P. d’Alch6 (France) M. Hiraoka (Japan) H. lnoue (Japan) J. K. Jagielski (Poland) G. Kozmann (Hungary) R. MacLeod (U.S.A.) J.E. Madias (U.S.A.) J.A. Malmivuo (Finland) M. Monoach (Israel) R. Nadeau (Canada) 0. Pahlm (Sweden)
C.A. Pastore (Brazil) I. Preda (Hungary) A.J. Pullan (Newzealand) M.P. Roshchevsky (Russia) Y. Rudy (U.S.A.) R.H.S. Selvester (U.S.A.) M. Sobieszczanska (Poland) L.I. Titomir (Russia) J. Toyama (Japan) M. Tysler (Slovak Republic) A.van Oosterom (The Netherlands) W.Zareba (U.S.A.)
Supported by The International Society of Electrocardiology The Organizing Committee of the 31st International Congress on Electrocardiology The Japanese Society of Electrocardiology The Japan Heart Foundation V
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PREFACE Electrocardiology has witnessed a century of development since the introduction of Einthoven’s Galvanometer and still it stands as standard diagnostic and therapeutic means in clinica