Dear Colleague,

The XIII World Congress on Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology will be held on December 2 - 6, 2007 in Rome. The Board members of the International Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology Society (ICPES) assigned to me the task to coordinate both the scientific and logistic organization. The ICPES World Congress is held every four years since more than three decades and it has always been very successful.
The attendance in the last two editions (Berlin, Hong Kong) was very high, including more than 5.000 electrophysiologists and clinical cardiologists from all over the world.
The mission of the World Congress of Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysioloy is to be very educative, underlining the evidence-based clinical practice in the field of arrhythmology for clinical cardiologists and young electrophysiologists.
On the other side, the Congress has also the need to touch the most advanced topics in invasive electrophysiology and pacing, giving to the top level electrophysiologists the opportunity to show and discuss new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.
To achieve these targets, it seems mandatory, in consideration of the very large scientific evidence available at present in the field of heart failure treatment and sudden death prevention, to address the scientific program to all the doctors who are, at different stages, involved in the diagnostic and therapeutic process of arrhythmic patients.
In fact, it appeared very clear, during this last decade, that more and more arrhythmic and heart failure patients are followed by clinical cardiologists and general practitioners.
That has created a real need to debate with them about the numerous and important results obtained by the new therapeutic strategies using implantable devices for cardiac resynchronization and particularly implantable defibrillators.
Similarly, atrial fibrillation, which is still the most common arrhythmia and the most frequent cardiac cause of hospitalization and which can be cured in many cases by different pharmaceutical and/or non-pharmaceutical tools is often observed and initially treated by general cardiologists and internal medicine doctors before being referred to an Arrhythmia Center.
That brings the evidence that a common therapeutic strategy to fight against sudden death and atrial fibrillation should be shared and organized together with all the medical components which have some role in the identification and treatment of these patients. Should we succeed in that purpose a further step toward an equal access to the appropriate therapy for all the patients could be reached in the more and also in the less developed countries.
The World Congress of Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology has this ambition, and therefore it is my pleasure to invite all the doctors involved in the field of clinical cardiology and obviously the experts in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias to join us in this worldwide scientific event.

See you in Rome

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