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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2007. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Celebrating 50 years of electrical therapies for the heart

Giuseppe Boriani1,*, Cecilia Linde2 and Richard Sutton3

1 Institute of Cardiology, University of Bologna and Azienda Ospedaliera S. Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna, Italy
2 Department of Cardiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
3 Department of Cardiology, St Mary's Hospital, London, UK

* Corresponding author. Tel: +39 051 349858; fax: +39 051 344859. E-mail address: giuseppe.boriani@unibo.it

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Fifty years ago, on 8 October 1958, Elmqvist and Senning, at the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm, implanted the first endocardial pacemaker to treat a patient with recurrent Adam–Stokes episodes.1

Since this pioneering experience, arrhythmia management has evolved enormously in the last 50 years, with . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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