Contributions of France to the field of clinical cardiac electrophysiology and pacing

The contributions of France to the field of clinical cardiac electrophysiology and pacing during the last 7 decades have been considerable. This review will summarize the most important original articles considering only those that were mainly made in France. For simplicity reasons, these contributions will be classified as topics covering chronologic order. Several princeps publications dealing with multiple fields of cardiac electrophysiology and pacing have been reported in French-language journals only, and that explains why they are rarely referenced.