Ventricular Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death Mechanism, Ablation, and Defibrillation

by Wang, Paul J.; Hsia, Henry H.; Al-Ahmad, Amin; Zei, Paul C.

• ISBN13: 9781405161145
• ISBN10: 1405161140
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-12
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year throughout the world. Covering the most recent developments in this field, this leading text serves as a guide to this area of increasing clinical importance, addressing a wide range of topics, including: basic mechanisms of ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation clinical syndromes and etiologies epidemiology and risk stratification pharmacologic therapy ablation and surgery implantable defibrillators.Ventricular Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death provides the information that cardiologists, cardiac electrophysiologists, cardiac electrophysiology fellows, scientists, industry, and associated professionals need to know about current and evolving Ventricular Tachyarrhythmia treatment and diagnosis. As the most comprehensive book on this topic, it will serve as the text that this readership will turn to first.

Author Biography

Paul J. Wang, MD
Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine
Stanford University Medical Center
H2146, 300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford, CA 94305-5233, USA

Henry H. Hsia, MD
Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine
Stanford University Medical Center
H2146, 300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford, CA 94305-5233, USA

Amin Al-Ahmad, MD
Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine
Stanford University Medical Center
H2146, 300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford, CA 94305-5233, USA

Paul C. Zei, MD
Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine
Stanford University Medical Center
H2146, 300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford, CA 94305-5233, USA

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. vii
Foreword	p. xi
Mechanisms of VT
The role of spatial dispersion of repolarization and intramural reentry in inherited and acquired sudden cardiac death syndromes	p. 1
Mechanisms of ventricular tachycardia: underlying pathological and physiological abnormalities	p. 18
Etiologies and syndromes
Time-dependent gender differences in the clinical course of patients with the congenital long-QT syndrome	p. 28
Genetics of ventricular arrhythmias	p. 37
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy	p. 51
Risk stratification and the implantable defibrillator for the prevention of sudden death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy	p. 64
Catheter and surgical ablation
Mapping and ablation of ventricular tachycardia after myocardial infarction	p. 76
Mapping and ablation of ventricular tachycardia in nonischemic cardiomyopathy	p. 89
Mapping to define scars and isthmuses: a new paradigm for guiding ventricular tachycardia ablation	p. 101
Ablation of idiopathic ventricular tachycardias	p. 112
Ablation of ventricular fibrillation	p. 128
Ablation of ventricular tachycardia in congenital heart disease	p. 141
Role of imaging techniques in catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia	p. 150
Epicardial ablation of ventricular tachycardia	p. 164
Role of catheter control systems in ablation of ventricular tachycardia	p. 178
Current surgical techniques for ischemic ventricular tachycardia	p. 190
Epidemiology, risk stratification, and pharmacological therapy for ventricular tachycardia and sudden death
Epidemiology and etiologies of sudden cardiac death	p. 198
Non-invasive tests for risk stratification in ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathy	p. 213
Risk stratification: where we are and where do we go from here	p. 240
Pharmacological management of ventricular arrhythmias	p. 247
Ventricular fibrillation and defibrillation
The mechanisms of ventricular fibrillation	p. 267
Mechanisms of defibrillation	p. 277
Automatic external defibrillation and public access defibrillator response	p. 289
Advances in cardiopulmonary rescuscitation	p. 298
Advances in implantable defibrillator therapy and technologies	p. 312
ICD lead extraction: when, why and how?	p. 327
Index	p. 335
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