Cardiac Arrhythmias - A Clinical Approach

Cardiac Arrhythmias v Contributors vii Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi SECTION I EPIDEMIOLOGY 1 Epidemiology and
costs of cardiac arrhythmias 3 Bethan Freestone, Gregory Y H Lip
SECTION II PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY 2 Atrial
physiology 25 Dwayne S G Conway, Gregory Y H Lip 3
Electrophysiology for clinicians: pathophysiological aspects 47
Ernest W Lau, Gregory Y H Lip 4 Electrophysiology: diagnostic
aspects 63 Ernest W Lau, Gregory Y H Lip SECTION III CLINICAL
FEATURES 5 Atrial fibrillation: hemodynamics and clinical
features 99 John Godtfredsen, Rodney H Falk 6 Syncope 115
Aleksandras Laucevic줶us, Vytautas Abraitis 7 Stroke in atrial
fibrillation: epidemiology, risk factors and prognosis 135 John
Godtfredsen 8 Wide QRS complex tachycardias: principles of
diagnosis and management 147 Germanas Marinskis 9 Postsurgical
atrial fibrillation 165 Arjun V Gururaj, Rodney H Falk 10
Quality of life in atrial fibrillation 173 Mads D M Engelmann,
John Godtfredsen SECTION IV INVESTIGATIONS 11 Non-invasive
diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmias 189 Aleksandras Laucevic줶us
SECTION V CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY 12 Current and novel drugs for
cardiac arrhythmias 217 Melanie H?melgen, Thomas Meinertz 13
Proarrhythmia - long QT syndrome - torsade de pointes 239 Thomas
Meinertz, Melanie H?melgen, John Godtfredsen SECTION VI
MANAGEMENT 14 Paroxysmal, persistent and permanent AF 253 John
Godtfredsen 15 Management of acute atrial fibrillation and other
supraventricular arrhythmias 263 John Godtfredsen 16 Heart rate
control 275 Bethan Freestone, Gregory Y H Lip 17 Cardioversion
of persistent atrial fibrillation 297 Dwayne S G Conway, Gregory
Y H Lip 18 Antithrombotic therapy in atrial fibrillation: a
clinical approach 319 Dwayne S G Conway, Gregory Y H Lip 19
Ventricular tachycardias 339 Audrius Aidietis, Germanas
Marinskis 20 Non-pharmacological treatment of arrhythmias 355
Audrius Aidietis, Germanas Marinskis 21 Implantable cardioverter-
defibrillators 385 Audrius Aidietis, Germanas Marinskis Index 393