Catheter Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias (eBook)

David J. Wilber, MD Cardiovascular Institute Loyola University Medical Center Maywood, IL, USA Douglas L. Packer, MD Division of Cardiac Electrophysiology/Cardiology Department of Internal Medicine Mayo Clinic and Foundation Rochester, MN, USA William G. Stevenson, MD Director, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Program Brigham and Women's Hospital Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, USA

Catheter Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias: Basic Concepts and Clinical Applications 5
Contents 7
List of Contributors 9
Foreword 12
Preface 13
I Fundamentals 15
1 Overview of cardiac anatomy relevant to catheter ablation 17
2 Biophysics and pathophysiology of lesion formation by transcatheter radiofrequency ablation 34
3 Alternative energy sources for catheter ablation 49
4 Mapping for localization of target sites 63
5 Three-dimensional mapping technology and techniques: applications in atrial fibrillation 74
6 Utility of intracardiac echocardiography in cardiac electrophysiology 86
7 Catheter ablation in young patients: special considerations 105
II Supraventricular tachycardia 117
8 Focal atrial tachycardias 119
9 Catheter ablation of atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia 134
10 Catheter ablation of accessory pathways 163
11 Diagnosis and ablation of typical and reverse typical (type 1) atrial flutter 187
12 Catheter ablation of macroreentrant right and left atrial tachycardias 207
III Atrial fibrillation 233
13 Circumferential ablation of the pulmonary veins 235
14 Long linear lesions in the treatment of atrial fibrillation 251
15 Mapping the electrophysiologic substrate to guide atrial fibrillation ablation 264
16 Ablation for rate control of atrial fibrillation 275
IV Ventricular tachycardia 291
17 Ablation of idiopathic right ventricular tachycardia 293
18 Idiopathic left ventricular tachycardias 312
19 Catheter ablation of stable ventricular tachycardia after myocardial infarction 328
20 Substrate-based ablation of postinfarction ventricular tachycardia 340
21 Ablation of ventricular tachycardia associated with nonischemic structural heart disease 356
Index 379