introduction the sensation of palpitations may either be the initial or the only symptom of cardiac arrhythmia. we describe a case of a visible clear temporal relationship between standard doses of oxazepam and palpitation. case presentation a 48-year-old man presented to the cardiac care unit with systolic heart failure. he was commenced on a medication regimen of routine drugs of patient’s he...

Correspondence address: Carlos Alberto Cordeiro Abreu Filho. Av. Dr. Enéas de Carvalho Aguiar, 44. 2°andar. Cerqueira César. São Paulo, SP. CEP: 05403-001. Tel: (11) 3069-5014. E-mail: [email protected] Carlos Alberto Cordeiro de ABREU FILHO1, Luiz Augusto Ferreira LISBOA1, Luís Alberto Oliveira DALLAN1, Sérgio Almeida de OLIVEIRA1 Braz J Cardiovasc Surg 2005; 20(2): 167-173 REVIEW ARTICLE

These two volumes form part of the excellent In Practice series, published by the Royal Society of Medicine. Each examines an aspect of cardiology and presents it in such a way as to be accessible for the expert and the generalist alike. Professor Lip is well known for his work on atrial fibrillation, and the book manages to include a lot of information. Despite this, it is very readable. My on...

Extraction of atrial activity (AA) is quite important in the study of different atrial arrhythmias. This work shows the possibility of AA extraction from Atrial Fibrilation (AF) episodes in Holter registers using only one lead with a new technique, the adaptive wavelet analysis (AWA). The principal aim is to adapt automatically the Discrete Packet Wavelet Transform (DPWT) depending on the shape...

The authors present alternatives for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. Its detection is based on the use of different methods that record the cardiac electrical activity. The treatment involves intervening in the underlying disorder, antiarrhythmic drugs, stimulation and cardiac defibrillation devices, and, less often, surgery. The technological advances in the last two decades have provide...