With its unique, singular focus on the clinical aspect of cardiac arrhythmias, Clinical Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease makes it easy to apply today’s most up-to-date guidelines for diagnosis and treatment. An expert author team provides clear, clinically focused guidance on all types of cardiac arrhythmias, including practical techniques for managing complex patients.

New to this Edition

• • Stay up to date with new chapters on molecular mechanisms of cardiac electrical activity, cardiac ion channels, ventricular tachycardia in nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy, epicardial ventricular tachycardia, ventricular arrhythmias in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, ventricular arrhythmias in inherited channelopathies, ventricular arrhythmias in congenital heart disease, atrial arrhythmias in congenital heart disease, and complications of catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias.

• • including optical mapping of reentrant ventricular arrhythmias, 3-dimensional mapping of arrhythmias using different mapping and navigation modalities, and fluoroscopy images illustrating techniques for electrophysiologic catheter positioning, atrial septal puncture, and pericardial access.

• Gain a new understanding of hot topics such as mechanisms of arrhythmias, electrophysiologic testing, mapping and navigation modalities, ablation energy sources, sinus node dysfunction, conduction disturbances, atrial tachyarrhythmias, preexcitation syndromes and all types of ventricular and supraventricular tachycardias.

Key Features

• • Find the information you need quickly with a consistent organization in all chapters, written to a template that shows every arrhythmia type in a similar manner.

• • Access the fully searchable contents online at www.expertconsult.com, in addition to downloadable images.

• Fully understand the rationale for treatment of specific arrhythmias with practical techniques that are grounded in the most recent basic science.

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Contents

۱ Molecular Mechanisms of Cardiac Electrical Activity
۲ Cardiac Ion Channels
۳ Electrophysiological Mechanisms of Cardiac Arrhythmias
۴ Electrophysiological Testing
۵ Conventional Intracardiac Mapping Techniques
۶ Advanced Mapping and Navigation Modalities
۷ Ablation Energy Sources
۸ Sinus Node Dysfunction
۹ Atrioventricular Conduction Abnormalities
۱۰ Intraventricular Conduction Abnormalities
۱۱ Focal Atrial Tachycardia
۱۲ Typical Atrial Flutter
۱۳ Macroreentrant Atrial Tachycardia (“Atypical Atrial Flutter”)
۱۴ Atrial Tachyarrhythmias in Congenital Heart Disease
۱۵ Atrial Fibrillation
۱۶ Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia
۱۷ Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia
۱۸ Atrioventricular Reentrant Tachycardia
۱۹ Variants of Preexcitation
۲۰ Approach to Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardias
۲۱ Approach to Wide QRS Complex Tachycardias
۲۲ Post-Infarction Sustained Monomorphic Ventricular Tachycardia
۲۳ Adenosine-Sensitive (Outflow Tract) Ventricular Tachycardia
۲۴ Verapamil-Sensitive (Fascicular) Ventricular Tachycardia
۲۵ Ventricular Tachycardia in Nonischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy
۲۶ Bundle Branch Reentrant Ventricular Tachycardia
۲۷ Epicardial Ventricular Tachycardia
۲۸ Ventricular Arrhythmias in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
۲۹ Ventricular Tachycardia in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy-Dysplasia
۳۰ Ventricular Arrhythmias in Congenital Heart Disease
۳۱ Ventricular Arrhythmias in Inherited Channelopathies
۳۲ Complications of Catheter Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias