[The best of cardiac pacing in 2006]

In the field of cardiac pacing, the past year has not been marked by the publication of decisive scientific works, but several important publications have continued to witness the dynamism of this discipline. Selecting the significant facts in 2006 was not easy. Yet, in the following lines, we have integrated them in the dynamic of this speciality. The validation of the concept of resynchronization is now definitively accepted, and its actual place in the strategy of treatment of heart failure is clearer. With the issue of the systematic adjunction of an anti-tachycardia function, we reach the meeting point between cardiac pacing, arrhythmology and heart failure.