Catheter Ablation of Arrhythmias

Introduction Jacques Clementy, MD Chapter 1. Mechanisms of Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry and Ventricular Tachycardia Determined from Optical Mapping of Isolated Perfused Preparations Jiashin Wu, PhD, Jianyi Wu, MD, Jeffrey Olgin, MD, John Miller, MD, and Douglas P. Zipes, MD Chapter 2. Minimal/Essential Electrophysiologic Assessment Before Ablation Frederic Anselme Chapter 3. Mapping Techniques Tailored to the Target Arrhythmias Nadir Saoudi, MD, Khelil Yaici, MD, Jean Paul Rinaldi, MD, and Marc Bergonzi, MD Chapter 4. Pathophysiology of Radiofrequency Lesions Formation and the Role of New Energy Modalities David E. Haines, MD Chapter 5. Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: Targeting the Triggers Michel Haissaguerre, MD, Dipen C. Shah, MD, Pierre Jais, MD, Meleze Hocini, MD, Teiichi Yamane, MD, Kee-Joon Choi, MD, Stephane Garrigue, MD, and Jacques Clementy, MD Chapter 6. Linear Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: The Pendulum Swings Back Douglas L. Packer, MD Chapter 7. Catheter Ablation of Typical Atrial Flutter Francisco G. Cosio, MD, FESC, FACC, FNASPE, Agustin Pastor, MD, Ambrosio Nunez, MD, and Antonio Goicolea, FESC Chapter 8. Catheter Ablation of Atypical Right Atrial Flutter Dipen C. Shah, Pierre Jais, Meleze Hocini, Teiichi Yamane, Laurent Macle, Kee-Joon Choi, Jacques Clementy, and Michel Haissaguerre, MD Chapter 9. Catheter Ablation of Atypical Left Atrial Flutter Pierre Jais, MD, Dipen C. Shah, MD, Laurent Macle, MD, Teiichi Yamane, MD, Kee-Joon Choi, MD, Meleze Hocini, MD, Michel Haissaguerre, MD, and Jacques Clementy, MD Chapter 10. Catheter Ablation of Focal Atrial Tachycardia Ming-Hsiung Hsieh, MD and Shih-Ann Chen, MD Chapter 11. Catheter Ablation or Modulation of the Atrioventricular Node Etienne Aliot, MD, Christian De Chillou, MD, Isabelle Magnin-Poull, MD, Beatrice Brembilla-Perrot, MD, and Nicolas Sadoul, MD Chapter 12. Catheter Ablation of Typical Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia Fiorenzo Gaita, MD, Riccardo Riccardi, MD, Scaglione Marco, MD, and Domenico Caponi, MD Chapter 13. Catheter Ablation of Atypical Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia Hein Heidbuchel, MD, PhD and Warren M. Jackman, MD Chapter 14. Catheter Ablation of Free-Wall Accessory Pathways and "Mahaim" Fibers John M. Miller, MD and Jeffrey E. Olgin, MD Chapter 15. Ablation of Anteroseptal and Midseptal Accessory Pathways Karl-Heinz Kuck, MD, Feifan Ouyang, MD, Masahiko Goya, MD, and Sigrid Boczor Chapter 16. Proposed Anatomy and Catheter Ablation of Epicardial Posteroseptal and Left Posterior Accessory AV Pathways Warren M. Jackman, MD, Yingxian Sun, MD, Karen J. Beckman, MD, Hiroshi Nakagawa, MD, PhD, Mauricio Arruda, MD, Peter Spector, MD, Daniel Lustgarten, MD, PhD, Sunny Po, MD, PhD, Kenichioro Otomo, MD, James Calame, RN, Lisa Herring, RN, and Ralph Lazzara, MD Chapter 17. Catheter Ablation of Idiopathic Ventricular Tachycardia and Bundle Branch Reentrant Ventricular Tachycardia Tohru Ohe, MD, Kengo F. Kusano, MD, Hiroshi Morita, MD, Tetsuro Emori, MD, Kazuhiro Suyama, MD, Wataru Shimizu, MD, Naohiko Aihara, MD, Takashi Kurita, MD, and Shiro Kamakura MD Chapter 18. Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia Related to Structural Heart Disease William G. Stevenson, MD and Kyoko Soejima, MD Chapter 19. The Future of Ablation and Transcatheter Therapy Hans Kottkamp and Gerhard Hindricks Index Colour Appendix