A practical approach to catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation
By: editors, Hugh Calkins, Pierre Jais, Jonathan S. Steinberg.
Contributors: Calkins, Hugh, 1956-; Jais, Pierre, 1964-; Steinberg, Jonathan S.
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Health
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780781775595
Subjects: Catheter ablation.; Atrial fibrillation -- Surgery.; Atrial Fibrillation -- surgery.; Catheter Ablation -- methods.
Table of contents: value: Indications for atrial fibrillation ablation and consensus recommendations / Hugh Calkins; value: Nonpharmacological therapy for atrial fibrillation: an historical overview / David A. Spragg, Hugh Calkins; value: Equipment and staffing / David Haines; value: Preprocedure preparation / Jose F. Huizar ... [et al.]; value: Intracardiac ultrasound / Jonathan Steinberg ... [et al.]; value: Electroanatomic mapping systems / Anshul Patel, Vivek Y. Reddy; value: Magnetic and robotic navigation / Bruce Lindsay, Mitchell Faddis; value: Noncontact mapping / Satoshi Higa ... [et al.]; value: Circumferential ablation with PV isolation guided / by Lasso Cathete... [et al.]; value: Circumferential atrial ablation / Carlo Pappone, Vincenzo Santinelli; value: Electrogram-guided ablation / Evan Lockwood, Koonlawee Nademanee; value: Linear left atrial ablation / Mélèze Hocini ... [et al.]; value: Tailored approach to ablation / Hakan Oral, Fred Morady; value: Ablation of autonomic ganglia / Hiroshi Nakagawa ... [et al.]; value: Atrial fibrillation trigger mapping / Francis Marchlinski, Fermin Garcia; value: A comprehensive overview of ablation of paroxysmal, persistent, and permanent atrial fibrillation: a stepwise approach / Pierre Jais ... [et al.]; value: Emerging technologies / Suneet Mittal ... [et al.]; value: Identification and elimination of ancillary arrhythmias / Paolo Ferrero, Pietro Francia, Riccardo Cappato; value: Ablation procedure follow-up and definitions of success / Christopher Piorkowski, Gerd Hindricks, Hans Kottkamp; value: When and how to re-ablate / Michael Riley, David Callans; value: Postprocedural care after radiofrequency catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation / Alan Wimmer, Hakan Oral; value: Complications / Conor Barrett ... [et al.]; value: The challenges of monitoring outcomes / Isabel Deisenhofer.