Cardiac electrophysiology : from cell to bedside /: from cell to bedside. (©2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] Douglas P. Zipes, José Jalife.
• Other Names: Zipes, Douglas P; Jalife, José
• Contents: Voltage-gated sodium channels and electrical excitability of the heart -- Cardiac calcium channels -- Voltage-regulated potassium channels -- Intracellular signaling and regulation of cardiac ion channels -- Membrane pumps and exchangers -- Sarcoplasmic reticulum ion channels -- Hyperpolarization-activated, cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels: from genes to function -- Molecular organization and regulation of the cardiac gap junction channel connexin -- Biophysics of normal and abnormal cardiac sodium channel function -- Gating of cardiac delayed rectifier potassium channels -- Cardiac stretch-activated channels and mechano-electric transduction -- The sinoatrial node: its complex structure and unique ion channel gene program -- Biophysical properties of inwardly rectifying potassium channels -- Biophysical properties of gap junctions -- Developmental regulation of cardiac ion channels -- Pharmacology of the cardiac sodium channel -- Pharmacology of L-type and T-type calcium channels in the heart -- KCNQ1/KCNE1 macromolecular signaling complex: channel microdomains and human disease -- Drug-induced channelopathies -- Connexins as potential targets for cardiovascular pharmacology -- Fibrosis and fibroblast infiltration: an active structural substrate for altered propagation and spontaneous tachyarrhythmias -- Biologic pacing -- A new functional paradigm for the heart's pacemaker: mutual entrainment of intracellular calcium clocks and surface membrane ion channel clocks -- Mechanisms of atrioventricular nodal excitability and propagation -- Intercellular communication and impulse propagation -- Cardiac myofibroblasts and arrhythmogenesis -- Cellular alternans and calcium cycling proteins -- Heterogeneous expression of repolarizing potassium currents in the mammalian myocardium -- Gap junction distribution and regulation in the heart -- Ionic mechanisms of ventricular action potential excitation -- Theory of reentry -- Nonlinear dynamics of excitation and propagation in cardiac muscle -- Rotors and spiral waves in the heart -- Modeling cardiac defibrillation -- Adrenergic signaling and cardiac ion channels -- Nerve sprouting and cardiac arrhythmias. Neurocardiac imaging -- Neural mechanisms initiating and maintaining arrhythmias: summarizing data from animal models and human diseases -- Role of cardiac and thoracic veins in arrhythmogenesis -- Dominant frequency and the mechanisms of maintenance of atrial fibrillation -- Electrophysiological basis of electrogram fragmentation in atrial fibrillation -- Structural atrial remodeling alters the substrate and spatiotemporal organization of atrial fibrillation -- Molecular remodeling and chronic atrial fibrillation -- Noninvasive electrocardiographic imaging: methodology and excitation of the normal human heart -- Dynamics and molecular mechanisms of ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation in normal hearts -- Mechanisms of ischemic ventricular fibrillation -- Insight into mechanisms of ventricular tachycardia from isolated wedge preparations -- Mechanisms of defibrillation -- Single nucleotide polymorphisms and cardiac arrhythmias -- Inheritable sodium channel diseases -- Inheritable potassium channel diseases -- Inheritable disease of intracellular calcium regulation -- Pharmacogenomics of cardiac arrhythmias and effect on drug therapy -- Morphologic correlates of atrial arrhythmias -- Atrial flutter -- Atrial fibrillation: mechanisms, features, and management -- Atrial tachycardia -- Atrioventricular reentry and variants -- Electrophysiologic characteristics of atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia: implications for reentrant circuits -- Atrial arrhythmias in congenital heart disease -- Ventricular tachycardia in patients with structurally normal hearts -- Ventricular tachycardia in patients with coronary artery disease -- Ventricular tachycardia in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy -- Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathies -- Ventricular arrhythmias in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy -- Ventricular tachycardia in patients with heart failure -- Ventricular tachycardia in patients after surgery for congenital heart disease -- The brugada syndrome -- Long QT and short QT syndromes -- Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia -- Andersen-Tawil syndrome -- Timothy syndrome. Idiopathic ventricular fibrillation -- Drug-induced ventricular tachycardia -- Progressive cardiac conduction disease -- Sudden infant death syndrome -- Sudden cardiac death -- Arrhythmias in patients with neurologic disorders -- Parasystole -- Differential diagnosis of wide QRS complex tachycardia -- Assessment of the patient with a cardiac arrhythmia -- Exercise-induced arrhythmias -- The use of implantable loop recorders -- High-resolution electrocardiography -- Head-up tilt table testing -- Electrocardiographic and autonomic testing of cardiac risk -- Monophasic action potential recording -- T wave alternans -- Mapping and imaging -- Noninvasive electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI): clinical applications -- Syncope -- Sudden cardiac deaths in athletes, including commotio cordis -- Gender differences in arrhythmias -- Arrhythmias in pediatrics -- Sleep-disordered breathing and arrhythmias -- Standard antiarrhythmic drugs -- New antiarrhythmic drugs and new concepts for old drugs -- Impact of nontraditional antiarrhythmic drugs on sudden cardiac death -- Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator: technical aspects -- Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator: clinical apsects -- Implantable pacemakers -- Cardiac resynchronization therapy -- Newer applications of pacemakers -- Lesion-forming technologies for catheter ablation -- Atrial substance ablation in atrial fibrillation -- Pulmonary vein isolation for atrial fibrillation -- Catheter ablation of supraventricular arrhythmias -- Catheter ablation for ventricular tachycardia in patients with structural heart disease -- Catheter ablation of ventricular arrhythmias in patients without structural heart disease -- Catheter ablation in pediatric and congenital heart disease patients.
• Edition: 5th ed
• Publisher Details: Philadelphia, PA : Saunders/Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2009
• Copyright Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxv, 1155 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 616.1/28; Arrhythmia; Heart conduction system; Electrophysiology; Arrhythmias, Cardiac; Cardiac Electrophysiology; Heart -- physiology; Arythmie; Cœur -- Système de conduction; Électrophysiologie; Arrhythmia; Electrophysiology; Heart conduction system
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781437727623
• Related ISBNs: 143772762X; 9781416059738; 1416059733
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.