Electrophysiological Disorders of the Heart

This brand-new resource focuses on the common clinical features, diagnosis, and management of the full range of rhythm disorders, highlighting basic science only where necessary. To-the-point and practical, this text discusses everything from cardiac rhythms and arrhythmias...to disease states associated with cardiac arrhythmias...to the latest pharmacologic and interventional therapies.

Table of Contents:
I. CONCEPTUAL BASIS FOR CARDIAC ARRHYTHMOLOGY Molecular and cellular basis of cardiac electrophysiology Mechanisms of reentrant arrhythmias Autonomic nervous system and cardiac arrhythmias Principles of clinical pharmacology Basic electrocardiography Principles of electropharmacology Fundamentals of cardiac stimulatio Clinical electrophysiology techniques Principles of catheter ablation Interpretation of clinical trials: How mortality trials relate to the therapy of atrial fibrillation II. CARDIAC RHYTHMS AND ARRHYTHMIAS Sinus node dysfunction Atrioventricular Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia and the preexcitation syndromes Atrial tachycardia, flutter and fibrillation Nonsustained ventricular tachycardia Sustained ventricular tachycardia with heart disease Ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation without structural heart disease Ventricular fibrillation III. CLINICAL SYNDROMES Cardiac arrest Syncope Asymptomatic ECG Abnormalities Evaluation and management of arrhythmias in Pro-arrhythmia syndromes Arrhythmias during pregnancy Evaluation and management of arrhythmias in a pediatric popul Genetics and cardiac arrhythmias IV. DISEASE STATES ASSOCIATED WITH CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS Arrhythmias in coronary artery disease Arrhythmias associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy Post-operative arrhythmias after cardiac surger Arrhythmias and electrolyte disorders The long Q-T syndrome Arrhythmias associated with congenital heart disease The Brugada V. PHARMACOLOGIC AND INTERVENTIONAL THERAPIE Antiarrhythmic drugs Pacing technology and its indications: Advances in threshold management, automatic mode switching and sensors Pacemaker insertion, revision, extraction and follow-up Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators: Technology, indications, implantation techniques, and follow-up Devices for the management of atrial fibrillation Catheter mapping techniques Ablation Technology Curative catheter ablation for supraventricular tachycardia:Techniques and indications Ventricular tachycardia Imaging techniques in clinical electrophysiology David S Schwartzman Noninvasive electrophysiology Antiarrhythmic surgery Device technology for congestive heart failure