Dispersion of ventricular repolarization
Subtitle: state of the art
By: edited by S. Bertil Olsson, Jan P. Amlie, and Shiwen Yuan.
Contributors: Olsson, S. Bertil.; Amlie, Jan P.; Yuan, Shiwen.
Publisher: Futura
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Armonk, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
Subjects: Arrhythmia -- physiopathology; Cardiovascular Diseases -- physiopathology; Electrophysiology; Ventricular Dysfunction -- physiopathology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Basic studies. 1. Electrical heterogeneity and the development of arrhythmias ; 2. Repolarization inhomogeneities in ventricular myocardium: studies using the optical mapping technique - Methodological aspects. 3. QT dispersion: methodology and clinical significance ; 4. QT dispersion on 12-lead electrocardiogram in normal subjects: reproducibility and relation to T-wave ; 5. Correlations between monophasic action potential recordings and surface electrocardiograms with regard to the evaluation of dispersion ventricular repolarization ; 6. Automatic detection of spatial and temporal heterogeneity of repolarization ; 7. Evaluation of ventricular activation-recovery coupling using an electroanatomical mapping technique ; 8. Global dispersion of ventricular repolarization: findings from monophasic action potential mapping using the CARTO system - Dispersion of ventricular repolarization and ventricular arrhythmias. 9. Increased dispersion of repolarization: a major mechanism behind the genesis of malignant ventricular arrhythmias in cardiac diseases ; 10. Disposition of "refractoriness" and ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation after myocardial infarction ; 11. The electrophysiological mechanism of torsade de pointes in the long QT syndrome ; 12. Spatial dispersion of ventricular repolarization in the long QT syndrome - Dispersion of ventricular repolarization and cardiac disorders. 13. Role of ischemia on dispersion of repolarization ; 14. Dispersion of repolarization in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy ; 15. Dispersion of repolarization in patients with hypertension ; 16. QT dispersion in patients with congestive heart failure and ventricular arrhythmias; title: Dispersion of ventricular repolarization and antiarrhythmic treatment. 17. Modulation of dispersion of ventricular repolarization by antiarrhythmic drugs ; 18. Effect of class I drugs on dispersion of repolarization ; 19. Effect of class III drugs on dispersion of repolarization in patients with myocardial infarction ; 20. Effect of defibrillation on dispersion of repolarization.