Foundations of Cardiac Arrhythmias: Basic Concepts and Clinical Approaches

by Spooner; Peter M.

• ISBN13: 9780824702663
• ISBN10: 0824702662
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-14
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Containing nearly 2300 key literature citations and over 300 helpful drawings, photographs, equations, and tables, Foundations of Cardiac Arrhythmias serves as a thorough and inspiring reference for clinical and research cardiologists, clinical and basic electrophysiologists, pharmacologists, molecular and cell physiologists, biologists, biochemists, molecular geneticists, biomedical and electrical engineers, and biophysicists, as well as an important text for graduate students, residents, and fellows in these disciplines.

Table of Contents

Series Introduction	iii
Samuel Z. Goldhaber
Foreword	v
Claude Lenfant
Preface	vii
Contributors	xiii
Perspectives on Arrhythmogenesis, Antiarrhythmic Strategies, and Sudden Cardiac Death	1	(20)
Peter M. Spooner
Michael R. Rosen
I. Ion Channels to Action Potentials
Cardiac Membrane and Action Potentials	21	(22)
Dan M. Roden
Cardiac Ion Channels	43	(30)
Harry A. Fozzard
Cardiac Ion Pumps and Ion Exchangers	73	(24)
Arnold Schwartz
Denis Noble
Regulation of Cardiac Ion Channels and Transporters	97	(24)
H. Criss Hartzell
Arnold M. Katz
Molecular Diversity and Distribution of Cardiac Ion Channels	121	(30)
Harold C. Strauss
Arthur M. Brown
II. Action Potentials to Tissue Activation
Sinoatrial Node and Impulse Initiation	151	(20)
Richard B. Robinson
Dario DiFrancesco
Intracardiac Cell Communication and Gap Junctions	171	(34)
Jeffrey E. Saffitz
Mark J. Yeager
Impulse Conduction: Continuous and Discontinuous	205	(38)
Charles Antzelevitch
Madison S. Spach
Networks: Fundamental Properties and Models	243	(22)
Ronald W. Joyner
Andre G. Kleber
Atrioventricular Conduction	265	(22)
Ralph Lazzara
Benjamin J. Scherlag
Luiz Belardinelli
Ca2+ and Arrhythmias	287	(32)
Henk E. D. J. ter Keurs
Penelope A. Boyden
III. Tissue Activation to Cardiac Rhythm
The Electrocardiogram and Electrophysiological Analysis	319	(30)
David M. Mirvis
Robert Plonsey
Global Behaviors of Cardiac Activation	349	(44)
Yoram Rudy
Jose Jalife
Mapping and Invasive Analysis	393	(32)
Rober L. Lux
Masood Akhtar
Robert S. MacLeod
IV. Arrhythmias: Origins and Mechanisms
Automaticity and Triggered Activity	425	(24)
Marc A. Vos
Bruce B. Lerman
Reentry	449	(30)
Michiel J. Janse
Eugene Downar
Atrial Fibrillation	479	(34)
Albert L. Waldo
David R. Van Wagoner
Ventricular Fibrillation and Defibrillation	513	(34)
Stephen M. Dillon
Richard A. Gray
Origins, Classification, and Significance of Ventricular Arrhythmias	547	(24)
Robert J. Myerburg
Heikki V. Huikuri
Agustin Castellanos
V. Therapeutic Strategies and Future Directions
Cardiac Pacemakers	571	(28)
Adam Zivin
Rahul Mehra
Gust H. Bardy
Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators	599	(22)
Adam Zivin
Rahul Mehra
Gust H. Bardy
Remodeling: Structural and Electrical Considerations	621	(30)
Gordon F. Tomaselli
Karl T. Weber
Transgenic Electrophysiology and Small Animal Models	651	(14)
Amit Rakhit
Charles I. Berul
Genetic Approaches and Familial Arrhythmias	665	(36)
Jeffrey A. Towbin
Ketty Schwartz
New Directions for Antiarrhythmic Drug Development Based on Molecular Approaches to Arrhythmogenesis	701	(24)
Eduardo Marban
Michael Sanguinetti
Ablation Therapy of Cardiac Arrhythmias	725	(20)
Douglas P. Zipes
Risk Identification by Noninvasive Markers of Cardiac Vulnerability	745	(34)
Richard L. Verrier
Richard J. Cohen
Sudden Cardiac Death and Its Prevention	779	(26)
Christine M. Albert
Leonard A. Cobb
Jeremy N. Ruskin
Index	805