Antiarrhythmic Drugs
Chapter 80 Antiarrhythmic Drugs Dobromir Dobrev, Bramah N. Singh There has been a considerable change in recent years in the role of antiarrhythmic drugs, and a number of factors have…
Genetic Diseases: Brugada Syndrome
Chapter 63 Genetic Diseases Brugada Syndrome Begoña Benito, Pedro Brugada, Josep Brugada, Ramon Brugada Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a major cause of mortality in the Western world, with an…
Genetics and Cardiac Arrhythmia Syndromes
Chapter 54 Genetics and Cardiac Arrhythmia Syndromes Jeffrey A. Towbin, Matteo Vatta, Hua Li, Neil E. Bowles Cardiac arrhythmias are major causes of morbidity and mortality, including sudden cardiac death…
Q-T Interval, QT Dynamicity, and QT Variability
Chapter 68 Q-T Interval, QT Dynamicity, and QT Variability Wojciech Zareba, Iwona Cygankiewicz, Antonio Bayes de Luna The last 2 decades have witnessed increasing research in the field of cardiac…
Fundamentals of Cardiac Stimulation
Chapter 13 Fundamentals of Cardiac Stimulation Rahul Mehra, Paul Belk In the past few decades, the scientific basis and the technology of electrical stimulation of the heart has advanced significantly…
Ventricular and Supraventricular Tachyarrhythmias Associated with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Chapter 55 Ventricular and Supraventricular Tachyarrhythmias Associated with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Barry J. Maron, Iacopo Olivotto, Franco Cecchi Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic cardiac disease with a particularly heterogeneous clinical…
Imaging in the Electrophysiology Laboratory: Intracardiac Echocardiography
Chapter 22 Imaging in the Electrophysiology Laboratory Intracardiac Echocardiography Bradley Knight, Susan S. Kim, Robert Schweikert, Sanjeev Saksena Introduction With the increase in number and variety of percutaneous intracardiac procedures,…
Molecular and Cellular Basis of Cardiac Electrophysiology
Chapter 3 Molecular and Cellular Basis of Cardiac Electrophysiology Gordon Tomaselli, Dan M. Roden This chapter reviews what is known about the fundamental basis of the excitability of the heart,…
Electrical Therapy for Tachyarrhythmias: Future Directions
Chapter 91 Electrical Therapy for Tachyarrhythmias Future Directions David Steinhaus, Paul J. DeGroot In their 25 years of existence, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) have moved to the forefront as the best…
Pacemaker Follow-up
Chapter 37 Pacemaker Follow-up Paul Knops, Luc Jordaens Introduction Since the implantation of the first human pacemaker in 1958, electrical myocardial stimulation against various types of rhythm disorders of the…
