New Arrhythmia Technologies provides a complete discussion of recent, emerging, and future arrhythmia technologies.

New Arrhythmia Technologies includes:

• advances in antiarrhythmic pharmacologis therapy
• advances in monitoring, risk assessment, and noninvasive mapping
• advances in pacing therapy
• advances in implantable defibrillators
• advances in catheter and surgical ablation
• advances in antiarrhythmic biological therapy
• vision for the future of arrhythmia technologies
• web-based defibrillation monitoring

Contents

1. New Antiarrhythmic Pharmacologic Therapies and Regulatory Issues in Antiarrhythmic Drug Development.
2. New Frontiers in Antithrombotic Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation.
3. Principles of Pharmacogenomics: Focus on Arrhythmias.
4. The Cardiac Sodium Channel Carboxy Terminus: Predicted and Detected Structure Provide a Novel Target for Antiarrhythmic Drug Development.
5. Embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes as a model for arrhythmia.
6. Gene and Cell Therapy for Sinus and AV Nodal Dysfunction.
7. Gene Therapy for Cardiac Tachyarrhythmias.
8. New Developments in Noninvasive Rhythm Monitoring, Implantable Hemodynamic, Monitoring, Functional Status Monitoring ,and Non-Invasive Mapping.
9. Techniques of Prediction of Arrhythmia Occurrence and Stratification for Sudden Cardiac Death.
10. Beta-blocker Efficacy in Long QT Syndrome Patients with Mutations in the Pore and Nonpore Regions of the hERG Potassium-channel Gene.
11. New Developments in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Defibrillation.
12. Sensor and Sensor Algorithms.
13. New Electrode and Lead Designs for Pacemakers.
14. Current Concepts in Intravascular Pacemaker and Defibrillator Lead Extraction.
15. Left Ventricular Epicardial Lead Implantation: Anatomy, Techniques, and Tools.
16. New Resynchronization Lead Systems and Devices.
17. New Indications for Pacing.
18. New Sensing and Discrimination Algorithms.
19. Arrhythmia Prevention and Termination Algorithms.
20. New Lead Designs and Lead-Less Systems.
21. Optimization of Defibrillation Function.
22. Remote Web-Based Device Monitoring.
23. New ICD Indications.
24. Advances in Surgical Ablation Devices for Atrial Fibrillation.
25. Epicardial Access.
26. Advances in Catheter Control Devices.
27. Advances in Energy Sources in Catheter Ablation.
28. New Ablation Paradigms: Anatomic Ablation of Complex Arrhythmia Substrates

Index

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