Clinical Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease

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Elsevier Health Sciences, 2009 - Medical - 502 pages

With its unique, singular focus on the clinical aspect of cardiac arrhythmias, Clinical Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease makes it easy to apply today's most up-to-date guidelines for diagnosis and treatment. An expert author team provides clear, clinically focused guidance on all types of cardiac arrhythmias, including practical techniques for managing complex patients.



  • Find the information you need quickly with a consistent organization in all chapters, written to a template that shows every arrhythmia type in a similar manner.
  • Access the fully searchable contents online at www.expertconsult.com, in addition to downloadable images and dynamic video clips.
  • Fully understand the rationale for treatment of specific arrhythmias with practical techniques that are grounded in the most recent basic science.


  • Stay up to date with new chapters on molecular mechanisms of cardiac electrical activity, cardiac ion channels, ventricular tachycardia in nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy, epicardial ventricular tachycardia, ventricular arrhythmias in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, ventricular arrhythmias in inherited channelopathies, ventricular arrhythmias in congenital heart disease, atrial arrhythmias in congenital heart disease, and complications of catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias.
  • View videos of 27 key techniques online, including optical mapping of reentrant ventricular arrhythmias, 3-dimensional mapping of arrhythmias using different mapping and navigation modalities, and fluoroscopy images illustrating techniques for electrophysiologic catheter positioning, atrial septal puncture, and pericardial access.
  • Gain a new understanding of hot topics such as mechanisms of arrhythmias, electrophysiologic testing, mapping and navigation modalities, ablation energy sources, sinus node dysfunction, conduction disturbances, atrial tachyarrhythmias, preexcitation syndromes and all types of ventricular and supraventricular tachycardias.


Tackle the clinical management of cardiac arrhythmias with confidence with the most up-to-date guidance from the experts you trust.



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Contents

Chapter 1 Electrophysiological Mechanisms of Cardiac Arrhythmias
1
Chapter 2 Electrophysiological Testing
27
Chapter 3 Mapping and Navigation Modalities
57
Chapter 4 Ablation Energy Sources
100
Chapter 5 Sinus Node Dysfunction
118
Chapter 6 Atrioventricular Conduction Abnormalities
127
Chapter 7 Intraventricular Conduction Abnormalities
143
Chapter 8 Focal Atrial Tachycardia
157
Chapter 12 Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia
287
Chapter 13 Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia
293
Chapter 14 Atrioventricular Reentrant Tachycardia
319
Chapter 15 Variants of Preexcitation
364
Chapter 16 Approach to Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardias
377
Chapter 17 Approach to Wide QRS Complex Tachycardias
393
Chapter 18 Postinfarction Sustained Monomorphic Ventricular Tachycardia
404
Chapter 19 Idiopathic Ventricular Tachycardia
440

Chapter 9 IsthmusDependent Atrial Flutter
177
Chapter 10 Atypical NonIsthmusDependent Atrial Flutter
192
Chapter 11 Atrial Fibrillation
208
Chapter 20 Bundle Branch Reentrant Ventricular Tachycardia
462
Chapter 21 Ventricular Tachycardia in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia
469
Chapter 22 Other Ventricular Tachycardias
478

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