Full Description
This book provides up-to-date, user-friendly and comprehensive guidance on the evaluation, diagnosis, and medical and surgical treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. This ensures that that this title aids every trainee and practicising cardiologist, cardiac electrophysiologist, cardiac surgeon, vascular surgeon, diabetologist, cardiac radiologist and any physician who manages cardiac patients.
Cardiovascular Medicine: Cardiac Arrhythmias, Pacing and Sudden Death covers every aspect of cardiac arrhythmias, from cardiac signs and symptoms through imaging and the genetic basis for disease to surgery, interventions, treatment and preventive cardiology. This coverage is presented with consistent chapter organization, clear design, and engaging text that includes user-friendly features such as tables, lists and treatment boxes.
Contents
Basic Electrophysiology.- Pathophysiology of Atrial Fibrillation.- Genomics of cardiac arrhythmias.- Channelopathies: Clinical Presentation and Genetics.-Extended ECG monitoring.- Sudden Cardiac Death: Methods of Risk Prediction.- Electrophysiologic Testing and Cardiac Mapping.- Antiarrhythmic Drug Management of Atrial Fibrillation.- Anticoagulants for atrial fibrillation.- Cardiac pacemakers.- Implantable and Wearable Defibrillator Therapy.- Atrial Fibrillation Ablation.- Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation.- Supraventricular Tachycardia.- Clinical Management of Atrial Fibrillation.- Ventricular Tachycardia and Fibrillation in Patients with Structural Heart Disease .- Ventricular Arrhythmias in the Absence of Structural Heart Disease.- Bradyarrhythmias/heart blocks.- Syncope and Risk of Sudden Death.- Management of Ventricular Arrhtyhmias in Nonischemic Cardiomyopathic Syndromes.- Arrhythmias in Congenital Heart Disease.- Arrhythmias in Special Populations.
