Interventional Electrophysiology

This thoroughly updated Second Edition is a comprehensive, practical guide to all current techniques and procedural aspects of interventional electrophysiology. A leading international group of experts describes in depth the procedures and techniques, the rationale for their use, and the available alternatives. Complementing the text are more than 600 illustrations, including spatially oriented "how-to" line drawings, radiographs, and conceptual diagrams. This edition features an extensively updated program of illustrations and includes the latest information on dual chamber defibrillators, atrial defibrillators and ablation techniques, and ablation and catheters.

Table Of Contents
SECTION I: INTERVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR ABLATION OF TACHYCARDIAS


Morphologic Features of Normal and Abnormal Conduction Systems
Organization of the Interventional Laboratory
Catheterization and Electrogram Recordings
Catheter Designs for Interventional Electrophysiology
Cardiac Mapping Systems and Their Use to Treat Tachyarrhythmias
Ablation of Left-Sided Accessory Pathways: The Retrograde Aortic Versus the Transseptal Approach
Ablation of Right Free Wall and Atriofascicular Accessory Pathways
Catheter Ablation of Posteroseptal Accessory Pathways
Catheter Ablation of Anteroseptal and Midseptal Accessory Pathways
Modification of the Atrioventricular Node for Management of Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia
Ablation of Atrial Tachycardias
Atrial Fibrillation Ablation: Present and Future
Ablation of Idiopathic Left Ventricular Tachycardia, Right Ventricular Outflow Tachycardia, and Bundle Branch Reentry
Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease
Surgical Techniques for Ablation of Supraventicular Tachycardias
Surgical Approach to Atrial Flutter and Atrial Fibrillation
Role of Intraoperative Mapping in Ventricular Arrhythmia Surgery
Ventricular Tachycardia Surgical Techniques

SECTION II: ADVANCES IN IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATORS AND PACEMAKER THERAPY


Implantation of Cardioverter-Defibrillators in the Electrophysiology Laboratory
Defibrillation Waveforms
Dual-Chamber Sensing and Detection for Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators
Atrial Defibrillation with Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators
Tiered Therapy for Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators: Underlying Principles and Clinical Implications
Atrial Defibrillators
Clinical Results with Investigational Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators
Clinical Results with Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators
Randomized Clinical Trials of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators for Prophylaxis of Sudden Cardiac Death
What is the Role for Pharmacologic Therapy Sustained Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias?
Future Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Technologies
Implantation Techniques for Single- and Dual-Chamber Pacemakers
Clinical Trials in Cardiac Pacing
New and Evolving Indications for Cardiac Pacing
Is There is a Role for Cardiac Pacing in Vasodepressor Syncope?
Extraction of Transvenous Pacemaker and Defibrillator Leads