Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Arrhythmogenic Syndromes Associated with Sudden Cardiac Death
Oscar Campuzano and Ramon Brugada (Cardiovascular Genetics Center-Gencardio, University of Girona – IDIBGI, Girona, Spain, and others)
Chapter 2. Early Repolarization
Francesco P. Petracca, Yvonne Cristoforetti and Luigi Biasco (Cardiocentro Ticino Foundation, Lugano, Switzerland, and others
Chapter 3. Sudden Cardiac Death in Athletes: Reasons and Prevention
Leonid Makarov, PhD (Center for Syncope and Cardiac Arrhythmias in children and adolescents of Russian Federal Medico Biology Agency (FMBA of Russia), Central Children Clinical Hospital FMBA of Russia, Moscow, Russia)
Chapter 4. Sudden Cardiac Death in Athletes: Epidemiology, Etiology, and Essentials
Abdulbaset Maroofi, PhD (Department of Exercise Physiology, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran)
Chapter 5. Sudden Cardiac Death in Patients with Congenital Heart Disease
Elisabeth M. J. P. Mouws, MD and Natasja M. S. de Groot, PhD (Departments of Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
Chapter 6. Sudden Cardiac Death in Women
Begum Yetýs Sayýn and Alý Oto, PhD (Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology, Memorial Ankara Hospital, Ankara-Turkey, and others)
Chapter 7. New Advances in Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) Risk Stratification in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (pp. 131-160)
Giuseppe Galati, MD (Heart Failure Unit and Division of Cardiology, Cardiothoracic and vascular Department, San Raffaele Hospital and Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy)
Chapter 8. Chagas Cardiomyopathy as One of the Leading Causes of Sudden Cardiac Death in the Hispanic Population (pp. 161-188)
Alberto Brizuela-Ducharne, MD (Department of Internal Medicine at St. Barnabas Hopital in Bronx, New York, NY, USA)
Chapter 9. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance for Risk Stratification of Sudden Cardiac Death (pp. 189-236)
Fabrizio Ricci, Francesco Bianco, Valentina Bucciarelli, Carlo De Innocentiis, Roberta Aquilani, Gianluca Mannetta, Cesare Mantini, Antonio Raffaele Cotroneo and Sabina Gallina (Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies, Department of Neurosciences, Imaging and Clinical Sciences , “G. d’Annunzio” University, Chieti, Italy)
Chapter 10. Cancer Treatment and the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death
Hisham A. Ben Lamin, MD (Medical Center, Córdoba, Spain)
Chapter 11. The Role of Novel Echocardiographic Techniques for Primary Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death
Rodríguez-Zanella H, Muraru Denisa, PhD and Badano LP, PhD (Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy)
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