Twenty years of interventional cardiac electrophysiology: Meeting future challenges with continuing innovations.

摘要

The "Sixth International Symposium on Interventional Elec-trophysiology in the Management of Cardiac Arrhythmias" was held in Newport, Rhode Island on September 24—26, 2010. This symposium commemorated a special landmark in clinical cardiac electrophysiology. Twenty years had elapsed since the first in this series of symposia recognized interventional electrophysiology as a distinct scientific discipline. In 1990, this symposium was the very first international meeting devoted exclusively to the fundamentals of science and clinical practice of interventional electrophysiology. The umbrella of "interventional electrophysiology" gathered such diverse but fundamentally linked sciences of experimental electrophysiology, epidemiology, pharmacotherapy, cardiac pacing, defibrillation, catheter and surgical ablation, imaging, and clinical trials as applied to the management of cardiac arrhythmias.