Argentina's most important contributions in the field of electrophysiology.

Heart Rhythm O2

Centro Integral de Arritmias Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina.

Published: January 2024

Latin American electrocardiology emerged internationally thanks to the Argentine School of Electrocardiology. All started when the idea of a different anatomy of the conduction system was not only necessary to change the paradigm of a bifascicular system, but also to question diagnostic electrocardiographic criteria adopted by the scientific community without dispute. Almost every scientific contribution coming from the Argentine School of Electrocardiology represented a significant step forward in the understanding of the electrophysiology of the heart and its electrocardiographic counterpart. There is another reason that increases their value: the noticeable simplicity of the technical facilities with which these studies were done from the modest laboratory in Argentina, whose production was purely and genuinely Latin American. In the following lines we summarize what we consider to be the greatest contributions of the Argentine school to world electrophysiology.

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