Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
(Current topics in cardiology)
Elsevier, c1991
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The recent explosion of knowledge about the physiology and pathophysiology of cardiac arrhythmias, and the accompanying progress in diagnostic and therapeutic methods, is covered in this comprehensive volume.
Table of Contents
- Mechanisms - cardiac resting and action potentials current concepts
- the electrophysiology of acute ischemia
- the importance of cell coupling and anisotrophy to conduction in cardiac tissue
- initiation and modulation of pacemaker activity in cardiac cells
- automaticity
- arrhythmias triggered by after depolarizations
- experimental arrhythmias - ventricular arrhythmias in experimental subacute myocardial infarction
- slow conduction in experimental arrhythmias mechanisms and role in re-entry
- dispersion of refractoriness in experimental and clinical arrhythmias
- ventricular fibrillation update
- clinical arrhythmias - re-entrant supraventricular arrhythmias update
- non-re-entrant supraventricular arrhythmias
- differential diagnosis of narrow QRS tachycardia
- what's new in atrial flutter?
- atrial fibrillation - the blind man's elephant. Differential diagnosis of wide QRS tachycardia
- pre-excitation update
- long QT syndromes.
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