Electrocardiography of complex arrhythmias. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editors, Mohammad Shenasa, Edward P. Gerstenfeld ; contributors, Hamid Assadi [and forty-five others].
• Editors: Shenasa, Mohammad; Gerstenfeld, Edward P
• Other Names: Assadi, Hamid contributor.
• Contents: Cover image; Title page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Consulting Editors; Editors; Authors; Forthcoming Issues; Forthcoming Issues; Recent Issues; Foreword: Not Such a Trivial Pursuit; Preface: Electrocardiography of Complex Arrhythmias; Concealed Conduction and Allied Concepts; Key points; Introduction; Historical background; ECG and EP manifestations; ECG perspectives pertinent to atrial fibrillation; Summary; Electrocardiographic Characteristics of Ventricular Arrhythmia in Inherited Channelopathies; Key points; Introduction; Long-QT syndrome; Short-QT syndrome; Brugada syndrome. Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardiaElectrophysiological Basis of ECG Characteristics of Torsades de Pointes in Long QT Syndrome; Key points; Introduction; ECG characteristics of TdP; A paradigm of TdP from ion channels to ECG; The mechanism of twisting QRS morphology of TdP; Short-long cardiac sequence and the onset of TdP; QT/T-wave alternans and TdP; The mechanism of perpetuation of TdP: repetitive focal activity versus reentrant excitation; Summary; Atrioventricular Conduction Disease and Block; Key points; Introduction; Electrocardiographic pattern. Noninvasive and invasive testingCauses of AV block; Management and treatment; Summary; Electrocardiographic Characteristics of Focal Atrial Tachycardias; Key points; Introduction and definition; Pathophysiology; ECG characteristics of focal AT; General principles surrounding the ECG in focal AT; ECG characteristics of right atrial sites of origin; ECG characteristics of left atrial sites of origin; Differential diagnosis; Pharmacologic management; Outcomes of EP study and ablation; Summary; Right and Left Atrial Macroreentrant Tachycardias; Key points. Electrophysiology study and ECG characteristics of macroreentrant tachycardiasDifferential diagnosis in 12-lead ECG; Management; Intervention outcome; Discussion; Summary; Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardias; Key points; Introduction; History of AVNRT; Clinical presentation; Electrocardiographic characteristics of AVNRT; Dual A-V nodal physiology; Types of AVNRT; Uncommon or atypical forms of AVNRT; Electrophysiologic characteristics of AVNRT; Investigation and differential diagnosis of AVNRT and AVRT in the electrophysiology laboratory; P-wave morphology; Management of AVNRT. Management of patients with narrow complex tachycardiaCatheter ablation of AVNRT; Two approaches have been used for AVNRT ablation; Advantages of slow pathway ablation; End points of slow pathway ablation; Imaging during AVNRT ablation; Electrophysiologic effects of slow pathway ablation; Electrophysiologic effects of fast pathway ablation; Cryomapping and ablation of AVNRT; End points and outcomes of cryoablation in AVNRT; Subthreshold stimulation mapping of AVNRT; Complications of AVNRT ablation; AVRT; Clinical presentation; Tachycardias in WPW syndrome.
• Publisher Details: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2014
• Copyright Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (297 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 616.12807547; Arrhythmia -- Diagnosis -- Case studies; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General; MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine; MEDICAL -- Diseases; MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine; MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine; Arrhythmia -- Diagnosis; Electronic books; Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780323312103; 0323312101
• Related ISBNs: 9780323312097
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 9, 2014).
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