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Publisher: Springer International Publishing 2015 ISBN: 978-3-319-40816-3 Price: £66.99 Electrophysiology is an exciting, evolving and expanding sub-speciality. One challenge of the field is that it can be relatively inaccessible to those not familiar with its intricacies, who may find the concepts (and intracardiac traces) difficult to master. A new text “Clinical handbook of cardiac electrophysiology,” edited by Benedict Glover and Pedro Brugada, promises to address the need for a detailed yet accessible transitional text. It is firmly targeted at ‘electrophysiology (EP) beginners,’ be they general cardiologists, junior EP Fellow

A total of 100 consecutive patients (age: 49 years [range 37–76]; females: n=17; persistent AF: n=30; CHADS2 score >1: n=7) underwent a first ablation (between January 2004 and May 2007). Ultimately 167 procedures were performed until follow-up censure in May 2009. Complications occurred in 15 patients – acutely in 11, during follow-up in four. Cumulative ‘success’, ‘partial success’, ‘failure’ and ‘clinical success’ rates after 22 ± 14 months were 60%, 26%, 14% and 86%, respectively. ‘Clinical success’ rates for paroxysmal and persistent subgroups were 73% and 47% (first pro