Copyright © 2004 by the European Society of Cardiology.
Obituary
Obituary to: Philippe Coumel A founding father of modern arrhythmology
a Department of Cardiology, Servicio de Cardiologia, Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, Madrid, Spain
b Maastricht, The Netherlands
accepted April 7, 2004
* Correspondence to: Jerónimo Farré, Department of Cardiology, Servicio de Cardiologia, Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, Avda Reyes Católicos 2, 28040 Madrid, Spain. Tel.: +34-91-544-1636; fax: +34-91-549-9402
E-mail address: jfarre@telefonica.net
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On March 18 2004, Philippe Coumel passed away in Paris. At that time European cardiology lost one of its most creative sons. In the late 1960s and early 1970s Philippe Coumel not only introduced the technique of programmed electrical stimulation of the heart,1