The Fifth Decade of Cardiac Pacing -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Jacques Edmond Mugica -- Preface -- PART I: Implantation and Explantation -- 1 Implantation Techniques for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy -- 2 Pacing in Vasovagal Syncope: Are Too Many or Too Few Pacemakers Implanted? -- 3 Unusual Indications for Cardiac Pacing -- 4 Pacing for Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation: Fact or Fancy? -- 5 Extraction of Pacing and Defibrillator Leads: Current Concepts and Methods -- PART II: Multisite Pacing in Heart Failure -- 6 Multisite Pacing for Heart Failure: From Electrophysiology to Hemodynamics -- 7 Ventricular Resynchronization: Predicting Responders -- 8 Electrocardiography of Multisite Ventricular Pacing -- 9 Arrhythmias of Biventricular Pacemakers and Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators -- PART III: Advances in Technology -- 10 Left Ventricular Stimulation: Epicardial, Transvenous or Endocardial? -- 11 Permanent and Temporary Single-Lead VDD and DDD Pacing: State of the Art -- 12 Pacemaker Memory: Basic Concepts and New Technology -- 13 Future Trends in Pacemaker Technology -- PART IV: Pacemaker Follow-Up -- 14 Diagnosis of Supraventricular Tachyarrhythmias by Automatic Mode-Switching Algorithms of Dual-Chamber Pacemakers -- 15 Pacemaker Memory: Diagnosis of Atrial Tachyarrhythmias -- 16 Diagnostic Algorithms for the Detection of Ventricular Tachycardia by Implanted Pacemakers -- 17 Evaluation of the Pacing Function of Dual- and Triple-Chamber ICDs -- 18 Complexity of Follow-up in Multisite Pacing -- 19 Electromagnetic Interference with Implantable Cardiac Devices -- Index -- color plates.