Management of Cardiac Arrhythmias

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Yan, Gan-Xin (Editor), Kowey, Peter R. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana Press, 2011.
• Edition: 2nd.
• Series: Contemporary Cardiology
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Cardiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.

Few areas of medicine are evolving as rapidly as cardiac electrophysiology. What were only a short time ago seen to be lethal rhythm disturbances can now be treated with confidence in a diverse spectrum of patients. The first edition of Management of Cardiac Arrhythmias, published over ten years ago...

Table of Contents:

• Historic Perspective
• Mechanisms of Arrhythmogenesis
• Genetic and Molecular Basis of Arrhytmias
• Diagnosis and Molecular Basis of Arrhytmias
• Diagnosis of Arrhytmias with Non-invasive Tools
• Electrophysiological Study: Indications and Interpretaions
• Supraventricular Tachycardias
• Pharmacologic Management of Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter
• Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter
• Nonsustained Ventricular Tachycardias
• Ventricualr Tachycardias and Fibrillation: Pharmacological Therapy
• Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardias
• Indications for Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators
• Bradyarrhythmias
• Arrhytmias in Athletes
• Arrhytmias during Pregnancy and Postpardum
• Arrhytmias in Children
• Syncope
• Long QT Syndrome
• Short QT Syndrome
• J wave Syndromes
• The Last Word.