Recent Advances in Cardiac Pacing

Preface; Contributors; Part I: Hemodynamics and New Indications: 1. Hemodynamics of Pacing: New Aspects and Unresolved Issues; 2. Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Therapeutic Options; 3. Pacing Therapy in Congestive Heart Failure: Present Status and New Perspectives; 4. Multisite Pacing for Heart Failure; 5. Permanent Cardiac Pacing: New and Emerging Indications other than Cardiomyopathies; 6. Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation by Pacing; 7. Indications for Pacing in Acquired Atrioventricular Block: The 1991 ACC/AHA Guidelines Should be Revised; Part II: Implantation and Complications: 8. Unusual Access Sites for Permanent Cardiac Pacing; 9. Left Atrial Pacing: Technical and Clinical Considerations; 10. Importance of Interatrial and Interventricular Delays in the Performance of Dual-Chamber Pacemakers; 11. Thrombotic Venous Complications of Permanent Pacing; 12. Unusual Complications of Cardiac Pacing; Part III: Rate-Adaptive Pacing: 13. Update on New Concepts in Sensor Technology for Rate-Adaptive Pacing: Basic Principles; 14. Multisensor Pacing: Theoretical Considerations; 15. Non-Rate-Adaptive Sensor Functions in Cardiac Pacing Systems; Part IV: New Technology: 16. Advances in Lead Technology; 17. Advanced Programming and New Automatic Functions of Dual-Chamber Pacemakers; 18. Advances in Telemetry; 19. Contemporary Pacemaker Memory Systems; Part V: Evaluation of Pacemaker Therapy: 20. Does Physiological Pacing Improve Survival in Sinus Node Dysfunction? An Evidence-Based Approach 21. Quality of Life in Pacemaker Patients Index