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

by Editor: Paul J. Wang (Stanford University Medical Center); Editor: Henry H. Hsia (Stanford University); Editor: Amin Al-Ahmad (Stanford University Medical Center); Editor: Paul C. Zei (Stanford University Medical Center)

• ISBN13: 9781444300314
• ISBN10: 1444300318
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• 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.

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Foreword

Mechanisms of VT

The role of spatial dispersion of repolarization and intramural reentry in inherited and acquired sudden cardiac death syndromes

Mechanisms of ventricular tachycardia: underlying pathological and physiological abnormalities

Etiologies and syndromes

Time-dependent gender differences in the clinical course of patients with the congenital long-QT syndrome

Genetics of ventricular arrhythmias

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy

Risk stratification and the implantable defibrillator for the prevention of sudden death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Catheter and surgical ablation

Mapping and ablation of ventricular tachycardia after myocardial infarction

Mapping and ablation of ventricular tachycardia in nonischemic cardiomyopathy

Mapping to define scars and isthmuses: a new paradigm for guiding ventricular tachycardia ablation

Ablation of idiopathic ventricular tachycardias

Ablation of ventricular fibrillation

Ablation of ventricular tachycardia in congenital heart disease

Role of imaging techniques in catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia

Epicardial ablation of ventricular tachycardia

Role of catheter control systems in ablation of ventricular tachycardia

Current surgical techniques for ischemic ventricular tachycardia

Epidemiology, risk stratification, and pharmacological therapy for ventricular tachycardia and sudden death

Epidemiology and etiologies of sudden cardiac death

Non-invasive tests for risk stratification in ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathy

Risk stratification: where we are and where do we go from here

Pharmacological management of ventricular arrhythmias

Ventricular fibrillation and defibrillation

The mechanisms of ventricular fibrillation

Mechanisms of defibrillation

Automatic external defibrillation and public access defibrillator response

Advances in cardiopulmonary rescuscitation

Advances in implantable defibrillator therapy and technologies

ICD lead extraction: when, why and how?

Index

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