Ventricular Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

List of contributors. Foreword ( Hein J. Wellens ). Part 1 Mechanisms of VT. 1 The role of spatial dispersion of repolarization and intramural reentry in inherited and acquired sudden cardiac death syndromes ( Charles Antzelevitch ). 2 Mechanisms of ventricular tachycardia: underlying pathological and physiological abnormalities ( Jacques MT de Bakker, Harold VM van Rijen ). Part 2 Etiologies and syndromes. 3 Time-dependent gender differences in the clinical course of patients with the congenital long-QT syndrome ( Ilan Goldenberg, Arthur J. Moss, Wojciech Zareba ). 4 Genetics of ventricular arrhythmias ( Zian H. Tseng, Jeffrey Olgin ). 5 Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy ( Rahul Jain, Hugh Calkins ). 6 Risk stratification and the implantable defibrillator for the prevention of sudden death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy ( Barry J. Maron ). Part 3 Catheter and surgical ablation. 7 Mapping and ablation of ventricular tachycardia after myocardial infarction ( William G. Stevenson, Usha Tedrow ). 8 Mapping and ablation of ventricular tachycardia in nonischemic cardiomyopathy ( Henry H. Hsia, Pirooz S. Mofrad ). 9 Mapping to define scars and isthmuses: a new paradigm for guiding ventricular tachycardia ablation ( Kyoko Soejima ). 10 Ablation of idiopathic ventricular tachycardias ( Nitish Badhwar, Melvin M. Scheinman ). 11 Ablation of ventricular fibrillation ( Karen P. Phillips, J. David Burkhardt, Robert A. Schweikert, Walid I. Saliba, Andrea Natale ). 12 Ablation of ventricular tachycardia in congenital heart disease ( George F. Van Hare ). 13 Role of imaging techniques in catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia ( Mathew D. Hutchinson, David J. Callans ). 14 Epicardial ablation of ventricular tachycardia ( Mauricio Scanavacca, Eduardo Sosa ). 15 Role of catheter control systems in ablation of ventricular tachycardia ( Marco Perez, Amin Al-Ahmad ). 16 Current surgical techniques for ischemic ventricular tachycardia ( Robert J. Moraca, Marci S. Bailey, Ralph J. Damiano Jr ). Part 4 Epidemiology, risk stratification, and pharmacological therapy for ventricular tachycardia and sudden death. 17 Epidemiology and etiologies of sudden cardiac death ( Keane K. Lee, Amin Al-Ahmad, Paul J.Wang, Robert J. Myerburg ). 18 Non-invasive tests for risk stratification in ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathy ( J. Thomas Bigger, Mark C. Haigney, Robert E. Kleiger ). 19 Risk stratification: where we are and where do we go from here ( Jeffrey J. Goldberger ). 20 Pharmacological management of ventricular arrhythmias ( Kevin J. Makati, Munther Homoud, Mark S. Link, Jonathan Weinstock, N.A. Mark Estes III ). Part 5 Ventricular fibrillation and defibrillation. 21 The mechanisms of ventricular fibrillation ( Lan S. Chen, Peng-Sheng Chen, Moshe S. Swissa ). 22 Mechanisms of defibrillation ( Derek J. Dosdall, Jian Huang, Raymond E. Ideker ). 23 Automatic external defibrillation and public access defibrillator response ( Paul J. Wang, Amin Al-Ahmad, Robert J. Myerburg ). 24 Advances in cardiopulmonary rescuscitation ( Anurag Gupta, Amin Al-Ahmad ). 25 Advances in implantable defibrillator therapy and technologies ( Paul J. Wang, Amin Al-Ahmad, Henry H. Hsia, Paul C. Zei ). 26 ICD lead extraction: when, why and how? ( Bruce L. Wilkoff, Oussama Wazni ). Index.