Catheter Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias: Basic Concepts and Clinical Applications contains 21 chapters, each updating the fundamentals and progressing to advanced concepts, providing state-of-the-art knowledge with highly relevant material.

Each chapter dealing with ablation of a specific arrhythmia features the author's personal approach to ablation of the arrhythmia, including practical "how-to" tips, and a review of potential pitfalls.

Alternate approaches and variations are succinctly summarized. Original figures and drawings illustrate specific approaches to improve the usability of the book.

Contents

I: Fundamentals

1. Overview of cardiac anatomy relevant to catheter ablation
2. Biophysics and pathophysiology of lesion formation by transcatheter radiofrequency ablation
3. Alternative energy sources for catheter ablation: Saman Nazarian
4. Mapping for localization of target site
5. Three-dimensional mapping technology and techniques: applications in atrial fibrillation
6. Utility of intracardiac echocardiography in cardiac electrophysiology
7. Catheter ablation in young patients: special considerations

II: Supraventricular tachycardia

8. Focal atrial tachycardias
9. Catheter ablation of atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia
10. Catheter ablation of accessory pathways
11. Diagnosis and ablation of typical and reverse typical (type 1) atrial flutter
12. Catheter ablation of macroreentrant right and left atrial tachycardias

III: Atrial fibrillation

13. Circumferential ablation of the pulmonary veins
14. Long linear lesions in the treatment of atrial fibrillation
15. Mapping the electrophysiologic substrate to guide atrial fibrillation ablation
16. Ablation for rate control of atrial fibrillation

IV: Ventricular tachycardia

17. Ablation of idiopathic right ventricular tachycardia
18. Idiopathic left ventricular tachycardias
19. Catheter ablation of stable ventricular tachycardia after myocardial infarction
20. Substrate-based ablation of postinfarction ventricular tachycardia
21. Ablation of ventricular tachycardia associated with nonischemic structural heart disease

Index

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