Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Contributors
Chapter 1 – Differential Diagnosis of Broad QRS Complex Tachycardia (pp. 1-26)
Becker S. N. Alzand (Glorieux Hospital, Ronse, OLV Hospital, Aalst, Belgium)
Chapter 2 – Approach to Patients with Atrial Fibrillation (pp. 27-84)
Mohammad Shenasa, Hossein Shenasa, Mona Soleimanieh, Hamid Assadi and Fatemah Shenasa (Heart & Rhythm Medical Group, and Attending Physician, Department of Cardiovascular Services, O’Connor Hospital, San Jose, California, USA)
Chapter 3 – Supraventricular Tachycardias: Evaluation and Therapeutic Approach (pp. 85-100)
Vassilis M. Skeberis and Vassilis P. Vassilikos (Third Cardiology Clinic, Medical School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Chapter 4 – Sudden Cardiac Death in Ischemic Heart Disease: Pathophysiology and Risk Stratification (pp. 101-112)
Nabil El-Sherif, Sajin Pilai and Gioia Turitto (Downstate Medical Center and New York harbor VA Healthcare System, Brooklyn, NY, USA)
Chapter 5 – Sudden Cardiac Death in Non-Ischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Risk Stratification (pp. 113-130)
Begum Yetis Sayin and Ali Oto (Department of Cardiology, Memorial Hospital, Ankara, Turkey)
Chapter 6 – Mixing Dynamics of Heart Rate Variability (pp. 131-142)
Fariba Ariaei, Edmond Jonckheere and Ronald Berger (Dept. of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Univ., School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA and others)
Chapter 7 – Catheter Ablation of Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia (pp. 143-164)
Vassil B. Traykov (Department of Invasive Electrophysiology and Pacing, Clinic of Cardiology, Tokuda Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria)
Chapter 8 – Catheter Ablation of Accessory Pathways (pp. 165-190)
Vassil B. Traykov (Department of Invasive Electrophysiology and Pacing, Clinic of Cardiology, Tokuda Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria)
Chapter 9 – Catheter Ablation of Focal Atrial Tachycardias (pp. 191-204)
Vassil B. Traykov (Department of Invasive Electrophysiology and Pacing, Clinic of Cardiology, Tokuda Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria)
Chapter 10 – Catheter Ablation of Cavotricuspid Isthmus Dependent Atrial Flutters (pp. 205-224)
Vassil B. Traykov (Department of Invasive Electrophysiology and Pacing, Clinic of Cardiology, Tokuda Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria)
Chapter 11 – Catheter Ablation of AF: Where We Were and Where We Are Now (pp. 225-242)
Alexander Berkowitsch, Maciej WĂłjcik, Harald Greiss, Dmitri Pajitnev, Ersan Akkaya, Heinz-Friedrich Pitschner, Thomas Neumann and Malte Kuniss (Kerckhoff Heart and Thorax Center, Bad Nauheim, Germany and others)
Chapter 12 – Ventricular Tachyarrhythmia in Structurally Normal Hearts: Causes, Mechanisms, Manifestations and Treatment Options (pp. 243-264)
Rajeev K. Pathak, Kurt Roberts-Thomson and Andrew D. McGavigan (Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorder, Royal Adelaide Hospital and University of Adelaide and others)
Chapter 13 – Ventricular Tachycardia in Structural Heart Disease: Mechanisms and Non-Pharmacologic Treatment Options (pp. 265-278)
Pasquale Vergara and Paolo della Bella (Arrhythmia Unit and Electrophysiology Laboratories, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy)
Chapter 14 – Implantable Devices as Treatment Strategy of Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death (pp. 279-308)
Lidija Poposka (Arrhythmia Department, University Clinic of Cardiology, Skopje, Macedonia)
Index
Additional Information
The book will be of interest to a wide range of readers – students, fellows in training, general practitioners, cardiologists and invasive electro-physiologists.