Second Edition
by Igor Singer
Interventional Electrophysiology is a comprehensive, practical guide to all current techniques and procedural aspects of interventional electrophysiology.
Features:
- A leading internation group of experts describes in depth the procedures and techniques, the rationale for their use, and the available alternatives
- More than 500 illustrations, including spatially oriented "how-to" line drawings, radiographs, and conceptual diagrams
Contents
Interventional Techniques for Ablation of Tachycardias
- Morphologic Features of Normal and Abnormal Conduction Systems
- Organization of the Interventional Laboratory
- Catheterization and Electrogram Recordings
- Catheter Designs for Interventional Electrophysiology
- Cardiac Mapping Systems and Their Use to Treat Tachyarrhythmias
- Ablation of Left-Sided Accessory Pathways: The Retrograde Aortic Versus the Transseptal Approach
- Ablation of Right Free Wall and Atriofascicular Acessory Pathways
- Catheter Ablation of Posteroseptal Accessory Pathways
- Catheter Ablation of Anteroseptal and Midseptal Accessory Pathways
- Modification of the Atrioventricular Node for Management of Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia
- Ablation of Atrial Tachycardias
- Atrial Fibrillation Ablation: Present and Future
- Ablation of Idiopathic Left Ventricular Tachycardia, Right Ventricular Outflow Tachycardia, and Bundle Branch Reentry Tachycardia
- Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease
- Surgical Techniques for Ablation of Supraventricular Tachycardias
- Surgical Approach to Atrial Flutter and Atrial Fibrillation
- Role of Intraoperative Mapping in Ventricular Arrhythmia Surgery
- Ventricular Tachycardia Surgical Techniques
Advances in Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators and Pacemaker Therapy
- Implantation of Cardioverter-Defibrillators in the Electrophysiology Laboratory
- Defibrillation Waveforms
- Dual-Chamber Sensing and Detection for Implantable Cardioiverter-Defibrillators
- Atrial Deribrillation with Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators
- Tiered Therapy for Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators: Underlying Principles and Clinical Implications
- Atrial Defibrillators
- Clinical Results with Investigational Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators
- Clinical Results with Implantatble Cardioverter-Defibrillators
- Randomized Clinical Trials of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators for Prophylaxis of Sudden Cardiac Death
- What is the Role for Pharmacologic Therapy for Sustained Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias?
- Future Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Technologies
- Implantation Techniques for Single- and Dual-Chamber Pacemakers
- Clinical Trials in Cardiac Pacing
- New and Evolving Indications for Cardiac Pacing
- Is There a Role for Cardiac Pacing in Vasodepressor Syncope?
- Extraction of Transvenous Pacemaker and Defibrillator Leads
Index