Main description:

Ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year throughout the world. Covering the most recent developments in this field, this leading text serves as a guide to this area of increasing clinical importance, addressing a wide range of topics, including: basic mechanisms of ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation clinical syndromes and etiologies epidemiology and risk stratification pharmacologic therapy ablation and surgery implantable defibrillators Ventricular Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death provides the information that cardiologists, cardiac electrophysiologists, cardiac electrophysiology fellows, scientists, industry, and associated professionals need to know about current and evolving Ventricular Tachyarrhythmia treatment and diagnosis. As the most comprehensive book on this topic, it will serve as the text that this readership will turn to first.

Contents:

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.