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Informationen zum Autor Paul J. Wang, MD Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine Stanford University Medical Center Stanford, CA, USA Henry H. Hsia, MD Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine Stanford University Medical Center Stanford, CA, USA Amin Al-Ahmad, MD Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine Stanford University Medical Center Stanford, CA, USA Paul C. Zei, MD Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine Stanford University Medical Center Stanford, CA, USA Klappentext A comprehensive text on the diagnosis and treatment of ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death* Covers the most recent developments in this exploding field, including basic mechanics; clinical syndromes and etiologies; epidemiology and risk stratification; pharmacologic therapy; ablation and surgery and implantable defibrillators* Serves as a guide to this area of increasing clinical importance, which has attracted growing attention by the medical community* 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 Zusammenfassung Ventricular Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death Mechanism, Ablation, and Defibrillation Edited by Paul J. Wang, MD; Henry H. Hsia, MD; Amin Al-Ahmad, MD and Paul C. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributors vii Foreword xi 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 1 Charles Antzelevitch 2 Mechanisms of ventricular tachycardia: underlying pathological and physiological abnormalities 18 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 28 Ilan Goldenberg Arthur J. Moss Wojciech Zareba 4 Genetics of ventricular arrhythmias 37 Zian H. Tseng Jeffrey Olgin 5 Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy 51 Rahul Jain Hugh Calkins 6 Risk stratification and the implantable defibrillator for the prevention of sudden death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy 64 Barry J. Maron Part 3 Catheter and surgical ablation 7 Mapping and ablation of ventricular tachycardia after myocardial infarction 76 William G. Stevenson Usha Tedrow 8 Mapping and ablation of ventricular tachycardia in nonischemic cardiomyopathy 89 Henry H. Hsia Pirooz S. Mofrad 9 Mapping to define scars and isthmuses: a new paradigm for guiding ventricular tachycardia ablation 101 Kyoko Soejima 10 Ablation of idiopathic ventricular tachycardias 112 Nitish Badhwar Melvin M. Scheinman 11 Ablation of ventricular fibrillation 128 Karen P. Phillips J. David Burkhardt Robert A. Schweikert Walid I. Saliba Andrea Natale 12 Ablation of ventricular tachycardia in congenital heart disease 141 George F. Van Hare 13 Role of imaging techniques in catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia 150 Mathew D. Hutchinson David J. Callans 14 Epicardial ablation of ventricular tachycardia 164 Mauricio Scanavacca Eduardo Sosa 15 Role of catheter control systems in ablation of ventricular tachycardia 178 Marco Perez Amin Al-Ahmad 16 Current surgical techniques for ischemic ventricular tachycardia 190 Robert J. Moraca Marci S. Bailey Ralph J. Damiano Jr Part 4 Epidemiology risk stratificationand pharmacol...
