Philippe Coumel was a founding father of modern arrhythmology who introduced programmed electrical stimulation of the heart and criteria for AV junctional reciprocating tachycardias.
On March 18, 2004, Philippe Coumel passed away in Paris. At that time European cardiology lost one of its most creative sons. In the late 1960s and early 1970s Philippe Coumel not only introduced the technique of programmed electrical stimulation of the heart 1, simultaneously with but independent of Durrer and co-workers in Amsterdam, but also described criteria to determine the mechanisms and pathways of AV junctional reciprocating tachycardias 1–5. By reporting findings such as (1) the paradoxical capture and (2) prolongation of tachycardia VA conduction times during bundle branch block ipsilateral …
Jerónimo Farré (Thu,) conducted a editorial in Arrhythmology. Philippe Coumel was a founding father of modern arrhythmology who introduced programmed electrical stimulation of the heart and criteria for AV junctional reciprocating tachycardias.
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