List of contributors vii
Foreword xi
Hein J. Wellens
Part 1 Mechanisms of VT
1 The role of spatial dispersion of repolarization and intramural reentry in inherited and acquired sudden cardiac death syndromes 1
Charles Antzelevitch
2 Mechanisms of ventricular tachycardia: underlying pathological and physiological abnormalities 18
Jacques MT de Bakker Harold VM van Rijen
Part 2 Etiologies and syndromes
3 Time-dependent gender differences in the clinical course of patients with the congenital long-QT syndrome 28
Ilan Goldenberg Arthur J. Moss Wojciech Zareba
4 Genetics of ventricular arrhythmias 37
Zian H. Tseng Jeffrey Olgin
5 Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy 51
Rahul Jain Hugh Calkins
6 Risk stratification and the implantable defibrillator for the prevention of sudden death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy 64
Barry J. Maron
Part 3 Catheter and surgical ablation
7 Mapping and ablation of ventricular tachycardia after myocardial infarction 76
William G. Stevenson Usha Tedrow
8 Mapping and ablation of ventricular tachycardia in nonischemic cardiomyopathy 89
Henry H. Hsia Pirooz S. Mofrad
9 Mapping to define scars and isthmuses: a new paradigm for guiding ventricular tachycardia ablation 101
Kyoko Soejima
10 Ablation of idiopathic ventricular tachycardias 112
Nitish Badhwar Melvin M. Scheinman
11 Ablation of ventricular fibrillation 128
Karen P. Phillips J. David Burkhardt Robert A. Schweikert Walid I. Saliba Andrea Natale
12 Ablation of ventricular tachycardia in congenital heart disease 141
George F. Van Hare
13 Role of imaging techniques in catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia 150
Mathew D. Hutchinson David J. Callans
14 Epicardial ablation of ventricular tachycardia 164
Mauricio Scanavacca Eduardo Sosa
15 Role of catheter control systems in ablation of ventricular tachycardia 178
Marco Perez Amin Al-Ahmad
16 Current surgical techniques for ischemic ventricular tachycardia 190
Robert J. Moraca Marci S. Bailey Ralph J. Damiano Jr
Part 4 Epidemiology risk stratificationand pharmacological therapy for ventricular tachycardia and sudden death
17 Epidemiology and etiologies of sudden cardiac death 198
Keane K. Lee Amin Al-Ahmad Paul J.Wang Robert J. Myerburg
18 Non-invasive tests for risk stratification in ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathy 213
J. Thomas Bigger Mark C. Haigney Robert E. Kleiger
19 Risk stratification: where we are and where do we go from here 240
Jeffrey J. Goldberger
20 Pharmacological management of ventricular arrhythmias 247
Kevin J. Makati Munther Homoud Mark S. Link Jonathan Weinstock N.A. Mark Estes III
Part 5 Ventricular fibrillation and defibrillation
21 The mechanisms of ventricular fibrillation 267
Lan S. Chen Peng-Sheng Chen Moshe S. Swissa
22 Mechanisms of defibrillation 277
Derek J. Dosdall Jian Huang Raymond E. Ideker
23 Automatic external defibrillation and public access defibrillator response 289
Paul J. Wang Amin Al-Ahmad Robert J. Myerburg
24 Advances in cardiopulmonary rescuscitation 298
Anurag Gupta Amin Al-Ahmad
25 Advances in implantable defibrillator therapy and technologies 312
Paul J. Wang Amin Al-Ahmad Henry H. Hsia Paul C. Zei
26 ICD lead extraction: when why and how? 327
Bruce L. Wilkoff Oussama Wazni
Index 335
