BookKenzo Hirao, editor.
Summary: This book provides cutting-edge theories and techniques for catheter ablation of all kinds of tachyarrhythmias. Catheter ablation has been a main therapeutic method for tachyarrhythmias for more than thirty years now, and countless operations have been successfully performed. It is crucial for electrophysiologists to diagnose arrhythmia mechanisms correctly and to optimize ablation methods, especially in Japan, one of the world's fastest-aging countries and where many of this book's authors are based. The volume is divided into eight parts. The first three parts present the basic theories and novel insights essential to diagnosing and performing catheter ablations. In turn, the latter five parts highlight practical ablation methods in the context of frequently encountered arrhythmias cases, as well as rare ones such as chanellopathies. Written for electrophysiologists who treat patients with cardiac arrhythmias, the book offers reader s essential tips and tricks for the optimal treatment of arrhythmias.
Contents:
Part I - Cardiac Anatomy for Catheter Ablation
1. Atrial and Atrio-Ventricular Junctional Anatomy: Myocardial orientation and its heterogeneity
2. Anatomy of Aorta, Pulmonary artery and Ventricles
Part II -Techniques and Interpretation to Diagnose the Mechanism of Supraventricular Tachycardias
3. Entrainment pacing: A diagnostic tool for reentrant tachycardia and its application for catheter ablation
4. Para-Hisian Pacing
5. Entrainment Pacing for Differential Diagnosis of Supraventricular Tachycardias
Part III - Special Sites for Ablation
6. Aortic Sinus Cusps for Catheter Ablation of Supraventricular and Ventricular Arrhythmias
7. Coronary Sinus for Ablation of Ventricular Tachyarrhythmia and Supraventricular
8. Vein of Marshall Chemical Ablation of Atrial Tachyarrhythmias
Part IV - Catheter Ablation of Atrial Tachycardias and Flutter
9. Cavo-tricuspid Isthmus Dependent Atrial Flutter
10. Uncommon Atrial Flutter
11. Adenosine-sensitive Atrial Tachycardia
12. Focal Atrial Tachycardia
13. Catheter Ablation of Atrial Tachycardia Following Catheter and Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
Part V - Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
14. Pulmonary vein isolation: Radiofrequency energy
15. Pulmonary vein isolation: cryoballoon ablation
16. Radiofrequency HotBalloon Ablation
17. Catheter Ablation of Posterior LA Isolation: Box Isolation
18. Isolation of Superior Vena Cava
19. Catheter Ablation of Non-Pulmonary Vein Foci 20. Stepwise Ablation for Persistent Atrial Fibrillation
21. Substrate ablation of persistent AF
22. Autonomic Ganglionated Plexi Ablation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
Part VI - Catheter Ablation of Atrio-Ventricular Nodal Tachycardias
23. Slow Pathway Ablation for Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia
24. Ablation of Superior Slow Pathway in Atypical Fast-Slow Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia
25. Retrograde Fast Pathway Ablation in Atrio-ventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia
Part VII - Catheter Ablation of Accessory Pathways
26. Free Wall Atrio-Ventricular Accessory Pathways
27. Posteroseptal Atrio-Ventricular Accessory Pathways
28. Catheter ablation of antero-septal (supero-paraseptal) and mid-septal (true septal) accessory pathways
29. Atriofascicular Accessory Pathways
30. Nodofascicular/ Nodoventricular Accessory Pathway
Part VIII - Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardias
31. Outflow Tract Ventricular Tachycardias and Premature Ventricular Contractions - ECG based prediction of Origin Sites
32. Idiopathic Left Fascicular Ventricular Tachycardia
33. Bundle Branch Reentrant Ventricular Tachycardia
34. Papillary Muscle Ventricular Tachycardia
35. Ventricular Tachycardia in Non-ischemic Cardiomyopathy
36. Ventricular Tachycardia in Ischemic Heart Disease
37. Ablation of Brugada Syndrome
38. Ablation of Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia
39. Epicardial Ablation for Ventricular Tachycardia
40. Ablation of Electrical Storm.