Clinical Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease Part of the renowned Braunwald family of references, provides today’s clinicians with clear, authoritative guidance on every aspect of the latest diagnosis and management options for patients with arrhythmias. This comprehensive reference on cardiac arrhythmias lays a solid foundation of the underlying mechanisms of cardiac electrophysiology with an emphasis on identifying, understanding, and treating individual arrhythmias. Now fully updated from cover to cover, and carefully written to provide continuity and a consistent message throughout, the 4th Edition offers unparalleled coverage of cardiac arrhythmias in an accessible and user-friendly manner.

• Grounds clinical techniques in basic science for managing patients with complex arrythmia disorders.
• Offers increased clinical content with complete diagnostic and management options, including the latest drug-based, device-based, and device-drug therapies.
• Covers new tools and techniques for atrial transseptal and percutaneous pericardial access, new ablation energies and tools, and new ACC/HRS guidelines for bradyarrhythmias.
• Contains a new chapter on stroke prevention in atrial arrhythmias.
• Includes significant content updates on macro-reentrant atrial tachycardias in an era of ultra-high-resolution mapping, new mapping and ablation technologies for ventricular tachycardia, new genetic mechanisms underlying arrhythmia syndromes, and much more.
• Provides access to dozens of videos depicting key mapping techniques, and fluoroscopy images illustrating techniques for electrophysiologic catheter positioning, and atrial septal puncture, as well as pericardial access, cryoablation, and left atrial appendage exclusion procedures.
• Uses a consistent format throughout, showing every arrhythmia in a similar manner for quick reference.

Contents

۱. Introduction
۲. Molecular mechanisms of cardiac electrical activity
۳. Cardiac ion channels
۴. Electrophysiological mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias
۵. Electrophysiological testing: Tools and techniques
۶. Conventional intracardiac mapping techniques
۷. Advanced mapping and navigation modalities
۸. Ablation energy sources
۹. Sinus node dysfunction
۱۰. Atrioventricular conduction abnormalities
۱۱. Intraventricular conduction abnormalities
۱۲. Focal atrial tachycardia
۱۳. Typical atrial flutter
۱۴. Macroreentrant atrial tachycardia
۱۵. Atrial tachyarrhythmias in adults with congenital heart disease
۱۶. Atrial fibrillation: Pathophysiology and epidemiology
۱۷. Atrial fibrillation: Clinical presentation and evaluation
۱۸. Atrial fibrillation: Management
۱۹. Atrial fibrillation: Stroke prevention strategies
۲۰. Inappropriate sinus tachycardia
۲۱. Atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia
۲۲. Typical atrioventricular bypass tracts
۲۳. Atypical bypass tracts
۲۴. Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardias
۲۵. Wide complex tachycardias
۲۶. Ventricular arrhythmias in ischemic heart disease
۲۷. Idiopathic focal ventricular tachycardia
۲۸. Idiopathic fascicular reentrant ventricular tachycardia
۲۹. Ventricular tachycardia in nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy
۳۰. Bundle branch reentrant ventricular tachycardia
۳۱. Epicardial ventricular tachycardia
۳۲. Arrhythmias in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
۳۳. Ventricular tachycardia in inherited arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy
۳۴. Ventricular arrhythmias in adults with congenital heart disease
۳۵. Ventricular arrhythmias in inherited channelopathies
۳۶. Complications of catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias

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