Practical Intracardiac Echocardiography in Electrophysiology

Dr. Jian-Fang Ren is a Senior Research Investigator in the experimental and clinical electrophysiology laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He has been a pioneer in using intracardiac ultrasound imaging for electrophysiologic applications. He has authored or co-authored over one hundred original manuscripts including seminal publications related to the use of intracardiac ultrasound imaging technology and catheter ablation of inappropriate sinus tachycardia and atrial fibrillation. He has mentored over fifty trainees on the use of intracardiac echo and has lectured internationally on the subject matter. Dr. Francis Marchlinski is a Professor of Medicine and Director of Electrophysiology for the University of Pennsylvania Health System. He has been actively involved in cardiac Electrophysiology investigation and training for over twenty-five years. He has authored numerous articles on the utility of a variety of imaging techniques for facilitating electrophysiologic mapping and ablation. Dr. David Callans is a Professor of Medicine and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania. He has been a pioneer in the use of intracardiac echocardiography in cardiac electrophysiology. He has authored a number of original publications and reviews, lectured and has organized training sessions for electrophysiologists on the use of intracardiac echo. Dr. David Schwartzman is a Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Atrial Fibrillation Center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He has been actively involved in the development of intracardiac echo imaging in cardiac electrophysiology and has continued to published original manuscripts and well-respected, state-of-the-art reviews on the subject.

List of contributors.Preface.Introduction (Jerry Suls and Kenneth A. Wallston).Part I: Models of Health/Risk Behavior and Behavior Change.1. Healthy Lifestyle across the Life-Span: The Heck with the Surgeon General (Howard Friedman).2. Exploring the links between risk perceptions and preventive behavior (Neil Weinstein).3. Communicating about Health: Message Framing, Persuasion and Health Behavior (Peter Salovey and Duane Wegener).4. The Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model: A General Social Psychological Approach to Understanding and Promoting Health Behavior (William A. Fisher, Jeffrey D. Fisher, and Jennifer J. Harman).5. A Social Reaction Model of Adolescent Health Risk (Frederick X. Gibbons, Meg Gerrard, and David J. Lane).6. Affect, Thought and Protective Health Behavior: The Case of Worry and Cancer Screening (Kevin McCaul and Amy Boedicker Mullens).7. Social-Cognitive Factors in Health Behavior Change (Britta Renner and Ralf Schwarzer) .Part II: Social-Cognitive Processes in Health.8. Common Sense Models of Illness: Implications for Symptom Perception and Health-Related Behaviors (Rene Martin, Nan Rothrock, Howard Leventhal, and Elaine Leventhal).9. Contributions of Social Comparison to Physical Illness and Well-Being (Jerry Suls).10. Interpersonal Emotional Processes in Adjustment to Chronic Illness (Robert F. DeVellis, Megan A. Lewis, and Katherine Regan Sterba).11. The Social, Linguistic and Health Consequences of Emotional Disorder (James Pennebaker).12. Affiliation, Social Support and Biobehavioral Responses to Health (Shelley E. Taylor, Laura C. Klein, Tara L. Gruenewald Regan A.R. Gurung, and Sara Fernandes-Taylor).Part III: Personality and Health.13. Toward a Social Psychophysiology of Cardiovascular Reactivity: Interpersonal Concepts and Methods in the Study of Stress and Coronary Disease (Timothy Smith, Linda Gallo and John Ruiz).14. Gender-Related Traits and Health (Vicki Helgeson).15. Self-Regulatory Processes and Responses to Health Threats: Effects of Optimism on Well-Being (Michael Scheier and Charles Carver).Part IV: Adaptation to Stress and Chronic Illness.16. The Influence of Psychological Factors on Restorative Function in Health and Illness (Ashley W. Smith and Andrew Baum).17. Coping and Adjustment in Rheumatoid Arthritis (Craig A. Smith, Kenneth A. Wallston, and Kathleen A. Dwyer).18. Daily Processes in Health and Illness (Howard Tennen, Glenn Affleck and Stephen Armelli).19. Scenes from a Marriage: The Coupling of Support, Coping and Gender within the Context of Chronic Illness (Tracey A. Revenson).Index.