Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology in the Young

Macdonald Dick (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

332 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4419-3973-9 (ISBN)

Infos

It takes a certain hubris to come forth with a This book emerges from the clinical book entitled Clinical Cardiac Electrophys- practice and research of the pediatric cardiac iology in the Young. There are a number electrophysiology group in the Division of of excellent texts, monographs, and reviews Pediatric Cardiology at the C. S. Mott Ch- on cardiac arrhythmias in both adults and dren’s Hospital, the University of Michigan children—Josephson’s and also Zipes and in Ann Arbor, and the former pediatric elec- Jalife’s comprehensive texts come to mind, as trophysiology fellows from Michigan, now well as a number of others, including Deal, established electrophysiologists in their own Wolff, and Gelband’s, the several volumes right. It represents a compilation of the cli- from Gillette, and the recent text from Walsh, cal course, electrocardiograms, electrophysi- Saul, and Triedman, the latter three texts fo- ologic studies, pharmacological management, cusing on children. and transcatheter ablation therapy in patients Nonetheless the past three decades have from infancy through young adulthood seen in witnessed enormous advances in the under- Ann Arbor and at the current clinical sites of standing and management of human cardiac the former Michigan fellows. Thus, while the arrhythmias. This development represents the product may be idiosyncratic, it is not prov- fruits of both basic and clinical investigations cial. We are interested in “how it is done” but in cardiac impulse formation and propagation not to the exclusion of other approaches.

Inhalt

Background.- Development and Structure of the Cardiac Conduction System.- Physiology of the Cardiac Conduction System.- Clinical Electrophysiology of the Cardiac Conduction System.- Clinical Electrophysiology in Infants and Children.- Atrioventricular Reentry Tachycardia.- Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia.- Persistent Junctional Reciprocating Tachycardia.- Sinoatrial Reentrant Tachycardia.- Intra-atrial Reentrant Tachycardia—Atrial Flutter.- Atrial Fibrillation.- Atrial Ectopic Tachycardias/Atrial Automatic Tachycardia.- Multifocal Atrial Tachycardia.- Ventricular Tachycardia.- Sick Sinus Syndrome.- First- and Second-Degree Atrioventricular Block.- Complete Heart Block—Third-Degree Heart Block.- Syncope.- Cardiac Pacemakers and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators.- Genetic Disorders of the Cardiac Impulse.- Fetal Arrhythmia.- Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young.- Pharmacology of Antiarrhythmic Agents.- Transcatheter Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias in the Young.- Nursing Management of Arrhythmias in the Young.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.11.2010
• Reihe/Serie: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ; 257
• Zusatzinfo: 8 Illustrations, color; 173 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 332 p. 181 illus., 8 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 178 x 254 mm
• Themenwelt: Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Kardiologie / Angiologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pädiatrie
• Schlagworte: Pediatric
• ISBN-10: 1-4419-3973-3 / 1441939733
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4419-3973-9 / 9781441939739
• Zustand: Neuware