Cardiac Mapping

Table of Contents:
Dedication. Acknowledgments. Contributors. Preface. Preface to First Edition. Part 1. Historical Perspectives. Chapter 1. Historical Notes on the Mapping of Arrhythmias: The Contributions of George Ralph Mines. Michiel J. Janse, MD. . Part 2. Methodological and Technical Considerations. . Chapter 2. The Interpretation of Cardiac Electrograms. Martin Biermann, MD, Mohammad Shenasa, MD, Martin Borggrefe, MD, Gerhard Hindricks, MD, Wilhelm Haverkamp, MD, and Günter Breithardt, MD. Chapter 3. Methodology of Cardiac Mapping. Haris J. Sih, PhD and Edward J. Berbari, PhD. Chapter 4. Noncontact Endocardial Mapping. Richard Schilling, MD, Nicholas S. Peters, MD, Allen Kadish, MD, and D. Wyn Davies, MD. Chapter 5. Principles of Nonfluoroscopic Mapping: Nonfluoroscopic Electroanatomical and Electromechanical Cardiac Mapping. Shlomo A. Ben-Haim, MD, DSc. Chapter 6. Principles of Magnetocardiographic Mapping. Jukka Nenonen, Dr. Tech., Juha Montonen, Dr. Tech., and Markku Mäkijärvi, MD. Chapter 7. Fast Fluorescent Mapping of Electrical Activity in the Heart: Practical Guide to Experimental Design and Applications. Igor R. Efimov, PhD, Martin Biermann, MD, and Douglas Zipes, MD. Chapter 8. Precision and Reproducibility of Cardiac Mapping. Martin Biermann, MD, Martin Borggrefe, MD, Robert Johna, MD, Wilhelm Haverkamp, MD, Mohammad Shenasa, MD, and Günter Breithardt, MD. Chapter 9. The Ideal Cardiac Mapping System. Raymond E. Ideker, MD, PhD, Patrick D. Wolf, PhD, Edward Simpson, MS, Eric E. Johnson, MD, Susan M. Blanchard, PhD, and William M. Smith, PhD. . Part 3. Mapping in Experimental Models of Cardiac Arrhythmias. Chapter 10. The Role of Myocardial Architecture and Anisotropy as a Cause of Ventricular Arrhythmias in Pathological States. Nicholas S. Peters, MD and Andrew L. Wit, PhD. Chapter 11. The Figure-of-Eight Model of Reentrant Ventricular Arrhythmias. Nabil El-Sherif, MD, Edward B. Caref, PhD, and Mark Restivo, PhD. Chapter 12. Demonstration of Microreentry. Hasan Garan, MD. Chapter 13. Optical Mapping of the Effects of Defibrillation Shocks in Cell Monolayers. Vladimir G. Fast, PhD and André G. Kléber, MD. Chapter 14. Effects of Pharmacological Interventions on Reentry Around a Ring of Anisotropic Myocardium: A Study with High-Resolution Epicardial Mapping. Josep Brugada, MD, PhD, Lucas Boersma, MD, and Maurits Allessie, MD, PhD. Chapter 15. Microscopic Discontinuities as a Basis for Reentrant Arrhythmias. Madison S. Spach, MD. Chapter 16. Mapping in Explanted Hearts. Jacques M.T. de Bakker, PhD and Michiel J. Janse, MD. Chapter 17. Efferent Autonomic Innervation of the Atrium: Assessment by Isointegral Mapping. Pierre L. Pagé, MD and René Cardinal, PhD. Chapter 18. Mapping of Atrial Flutter. Wolfgang Schoels, MD and Nabil El-Sherif, MD. Chapter 19. Mapping of Normal and Arrhythmogenic Activation of the Rabbit Atrioventricular Node. Jacques Billette, MD, PhD, Jun Wang, MD, PhD, Karim Khalife, BSc, and Li-Jen Lin, MD. Chapter 20. Mapping of the AV Node in the Experimental Setting. Peter Loh, MD, Jacques M.T. de Bakker, PhD, Mélèze Hocini, MD, and Michiel J. Janse, MD. . Part 4. Noninvasive Methods of Cardiac Mapping. Chapter 21. Mapping of Atrial Arrhythmias: Role of P Wave Morphology. Arne SippensGroenewegen, MD, PhD, Franz X. Roithinger, MD, and Michael D. Lesh, MD. Chapter 22. Surface Electrocardiographic Mapping of Ventricular Tachycardia: Correlation with Electrophysiological Mapping. John M. Miller, MD, Jefferey E. Olgin, MD, Thabet Al-Sheikh, MD, and Gregory T. Altemose, MD. Chapter 23. Body Surface Potential Mapping for the Localization of Ventricular Preexcitation Sites and Ventricular Tachycardia Breakthroughs. Réginald Nadeau, MD and Pierre Savard, PhD. Chapter 24. Clinical Application of Magnetocardiographic Mapping. Markku Mäkijärvi, MD, Helena Hänninen, MD, Petri Korhonen, MD, Juha Montonen, Dr.Tech., and Jukka Nenonen, Dr.Tech. . Part 5. Mapping of Supraventricular Tachyarrhythmias. Chapter 25. Endocardial Catheter Mapping in Patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome: Implications for Radiofrequency Ablation. Karl-Heinz Kuck, MD and Riccardo Cappato, MD. Chapter 26. Endocardial Catheter Mapping in Patients with Mahaim and Other Variants of Preexcitation. Hans Kottkamp, MD and Gerhard Hindricks, MD. Chapter 27. Endocardial Catheter Mapping of Atrial Flutter. Francisco G. Cosío, MD, Antonio Goicolea, MD, Agustín Pastor, MD, Ambrosio Núñez, MD, María Antonia Montero, MD, and Maria Alcaraz, MD. Chapter 28. Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation in Humans: Initiation and Maintenance. Michel Haïssaguerre, MD, Pierre Jaïs, MD, Dipen C. Shah, MD, Mélèze Hocini, MD, Laurent Macle, MD, Rukshen Weerasooriya, MD, Teiichi Yamane, MD, Kee-Joon Choi, MD, Christophe Scavee, MD, Florence Raybaud, MD, Stéphane Garrigue, MD, and Jacques Clémenty, MD. Chapter 29. Mapping of Atrial Fibrillation: Clinical Observations. Riccardo Cappato, MD, Sabine Ernst, MD, Feifan Ouyang, MD, and Karl-Heinz Kuck, MD. . Part 6. Mapping of Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias. . Chapter 30. Substrate Mapping for Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia in Coronary Artery Disease. Timothy W. Smith, D.Phil., MD and Mark E. Josephson, MD. Chapter 31. Intraoperative Mapping of Ventricular Tachycardia in Patients with Myocardial Infarction: New Insights into Mechanisms and Electroanatomical Correlations in Septal Tachycardias. Pierre L. Pagé, MD, Wilhelm Kaltenbrunner, MD, and René Cardinal, PhD. Chapter 32. Dynamic Analysis of Postinfarction Monomorphic and Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardias. René Cardinal, PhD, Alain Vinet, PhD, François Hélie, MSc, Michel Vermeulen, B Pharm, MScA, Pierre Rocque, BSc, and Pierre L. Pagé, MD. Chapter 33. Mapping of Unstable Ventricular Tachycardia. William Stevenson, MD and Peter L. Friedman, MD, PhD. Chapter 34. Subthreshold Electrical Stimulation Mapping in Localization and Identification of Target Sites During Catheter Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias. Mohammad Shenasa, MD, Stephan Willems, MD, Gerhard Hindricks, MD, Jafar Shenasa, BSc, Xu Chen, MD, Hossein Shenasa, MD, MSc, Martin Borggrefe, MD, and Günter Breithardt, MD. . Part 7. New Frontiers. Chapter 35. Transcoronary Venous Mapping of Ventricular Tachycardia. Paolo Della Bella, MD, Claudio Tondo, MD, Corrado Carbucicchio, MD, Stefania Riva, MD, Gaetano Fassini, MD, and Paola Galimberti, MD. Chapter 36. Transthoracic Epicardial Mapping and Ablation Technique. Eduardo A. Sosa, MD, Mauricio Scanavacca, MD, and Andre D’Avila, MD. Chapter 37. Nonfluoroscopic Mapping of Supraventricular Tachycardia. Gerhard Hindricks, MD and Hans Kottkamp, MD. Chapter 38. Optical Mapping of Cellular Repolarization in the Intact Heart. Kenneth R. Laurita, PhD and David Rosenbaum, MD. Chapter 39. Techniques for Mapping Ventricular Fibrillation and Defibrillation. William M. Smith, PhD and Raymond E. Ideker, MD, PhD. Chapter 40. Disorders of Cardiac Repolarization and Arrhythmogenesis in the Long QT Syndrome. Nabil El-Sherif, MD and Gioia Turitto, MD. Index. Color Appendix

About the Author :
Mohammad Shenasa and Martin Borggrefe are the authors of Cardiac Mapping, 2nd Edition, published by Wiley.