Cardiac mapping.

Cover
Dedication
Cardiac Mapping
© 2019
Contents
About the Companion Website and Companion Digital Edition
List of Videos
Listof Contributors
Editorsof Previous Editions
Prefaceto the Fifth Edition
Prefaceto the First Edition
Foreword
Part I:

Fundamentals of Cardiac Mapping
1
History of Cardiac Mapping
2 Embryology, Anatomy, and Pathology of Ventricular Outflow Tracts Related
to Cardiac Mapping and Arrhythmias
3 Arrhythmogenic Venous Extremity of the Cardiac Tube
4 The Impact of Embryology and Anatomy on Cardiac Electrophysiology
5 Cardiac Morphology Relevant to Mapping
6 Anatomy of the Outflow Tract Region: Relevance to Arrhythmias
and Catheter Ablation
7 Fundamentals of Cardiac Mapping
8 Troubleshooting to Avoid Failed Ablation
Part II:

Imaging Technologies in Cardiac Mapping and Ablation
9
Intracardiac Echocardiography
10 Role of Cardiac Computed Tomography Imaging to Guide Catheter Ablation
of Arrhythmias in Complex Cardiac Morphologies
11 Role of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Late Gadolinium
Enhancement in Relation to Arrhythmias in Different Cardiomyopathies
12 Multimodal Imaging for Cardiac Mapping
13 Light and the Heart: Cardiac Optogenetics
14 Cardiac Mapping and Imaging in Patient Selection for Cardiac Resynchronization
Therapy: How to Identify Super‐responders, Responders, and Non‐responders
Part III:

Advances in Technology
15
Towards Non‐invasive Mapping and Imaging of Cardiac Arrhythmias
16 New High‐Density and Automated Mapping Systems
17 Non‐invasive Body Surface Potential Mapping of Reentrant Drivers in Human
Atrial Fibrillation
18 Electrophysiology of Heart Failure: Non‐invasive Mapping of Substrate
and Guidance of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy with Electrocardiographic
Imaging
19 Contact Mapping and Ablation of Complex Cardiac Arrhythmias
20 Advances in Atrial Fibrillation Ablation
21 Integration of Contact Force into Mapping and Ablation Systems: Does It
Improve the Results?
22 Advances in Molecular Imaging Relevant to Arrhythmias
Part IV:

Mapping in Experimental Models of Cardiac Arrhythmias
23
Optical Mapping of Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Ca2+ and Transmembrane Potentialin the Intact Heart: Insights into Ca2+‐mediated Arrhythmias
24 Electrophysiological Substrates for Gender Difference in the Incidence
of Torsades de Pointes Arrhythmias
25 Rotors in Animal Models of Atrial Fibrillation
26 Atrial Fibrillation from a Unipolar, High‐resolution Perspective
27 Mechanisms Underlying Arrhythmogenesis in the J‐wave Syndromes
28 Relationship Between Cardiac Alternans, Calcium Cycling,
and Ventricular Arrhythmias
29 Fibrosis and Arrhythmogenesis
30 Triggered Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias Initiated by Enhanced Late Inward
Na and Ca Currents: Novel Therapeutic Targets
31 Experimental VT: A New Porcine Model of Infarct‐related Reentrant VT
32 Experimental Mapping of Ventricular Arrhythmias: Intramural
Pathways and Substrate
33 The Molecular Basis of Long QT Type 2 (LQT2)‐related Arrhythmias:
How Sex Modifies the Risk of Torsades de Pointes
34 Optical Mapping of Arrhythmogenic Remodeling in the Failing Human Heart
35 Optical Mapping of Successful and Failed Defibrillation
36 Atrial Patterns of Neurally Induced Repolarization Changes:
Neuroablative Studies in Canines
Part V:

Mapping and Imaging in Atrial Fibrillation, Flutter, and Atrial Tachycardias
37
Clinical Relevance of Functional Models of Atrial Reentry and Fibrillation
38 Rotor Mapping in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
39 Rotor Mapping and Ablation in Persistent Atrial Fibrillation
40 Mapping and Ablation of Atrial Flutter and its Variants
41 Mapping and Ablation of Left Atrial Flutter and Tachycardia: New Observations
42 Mapping and Ablation of Atrial Tachycardia
43 Image‐based Risk Stratification for Stroke in Atrial Fibrillation
44 Revisiting Non‐pulmonary Vein Triggers
45 Mechanisms of Antifibrillatory Agents for Atrial Fibrillation: Evidence Obtained
from Experimental Models
46 Stepwise Approach to Atrial Fibrillation Mapping and Ablation in Persistent
and Long‐standing Persistent Atrial Fibrillation: Short‐ and Long‐term Results
47 Mapping and Ablation of the Cardiac Autonomic Nervous System
to Treat Atrial Fibrillation
48 Remodeling in Atrial Fibrillation: Novel Mapping Studies
49 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Mapping of Atrial Fibrosis and Atrial Fibrillation
50 Fibrotic Atrial Cardiomyopathy: Implications for Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
51 Mapping and Ablation of the Left Atrial Appendage
52 Electrogram‐based Mapping and Ablation in Atrial Fibrillation
53 Phase Mapping of Human Atrial Fibrillation
54 Trials on Atrial Fibrillation Mapping and Ablation
Part VI:

Mapping of Supraventricular Arrhythmias
55
Entrainment Mapping in Supraventricular Tachycardias
56 The Problematic Postpacing Interval
57 Mapping and Ablation of Typical and Atypical Accessory Pathways
58 Preexcited Atrioventricular Junctional Reentrant Tachycardia:
Electrophysiological Characteristics of the Reentrant Circuits
59 Mapping and Ablation of Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry Tachycardia
and its Variants: Current Understanding and Controversies
60 Electrical Stimulation Maneuvers to Differentiate Different Forms
of Supraventricular Tachycardias
61 Mechanisms of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation: What Do the Clinical Mapping
Studies Teach Us?
62 Imaging and Mapping of Arrhythmias in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
63 Mapping and Ablation of Supraventricular Arrhythmias in Congenital
Heart Disease
64 Cardiac Mapping and Imaging: Arrhythmias in Patients with Congenital
Heart Disease
Part VII:

Mapping and Imaging of Ventricular Arrhythmias
65
Mapping and Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia in Normal Hearts
66 The Combination of a Basket Catheter and EnSite™ Mapping System Improves
Catheter Ablation of Right Ventricle Outflow Premature Ventricular Contraction
67 Mapping and Ablation of Ventricular Arrhythmias: Patients with Non‐Ischemic
Cardiomyopathy
68 Mapping and Ablation of Ventricular Arrhythmias in Patients with Congenital
Heart Disease
69 Substrate Ablation for Ventricular Tachycardia in Structural Heart Disease
70 Coronary Mapping and Ablation of Arrhythmias
71 Endocardial Catheter Pace Mapping of Ventricular Tachycardias
72 Resetting and Entrainment Phenomena: Application to Mapping
of Ventricular Tachycardia
73 Mapping and Ablation of Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation
74 Mapping and Ablation in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia/
Cardiomyopathy: Epicardial and Endocardial Mapping and Long‐Term Results
75 Mapping and Ablation of Ventricular Arrhythmias in Patients
with Cardiac Sarcoidosis
76 Cardiac Mapping and Imaging in Patients with Ventricular Arrhythmias
in Chagas Disease Undergoing Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia
77 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Mapping of Ventricular Tachycardia in Patients
with Different Cardiomyopathies (Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia,
Amyloidosis, etc.)
78 Mapping and Ablation of Ventricular Arrhythmias of Unusual Sites
79 Mapping and Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia in Coronary Artery Disease
80 Epicardial Mapping in Different Ventricular Tachycardia Substrates: Technique
and Instrumentation, Short‐ and Long‐term Results
81 Usefulness of the 12‐Lead ECG to Identify Epicardial Ventricular
Substrate and Epicardial Ventricular Tachycardia Site of Origin
82 Mapping and Imaging of Fascicular Ventricular Tachycardia
83 Scar‐Related Ventricular Tachycardia Mapping and Ablation Using
Contrast‐Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Part VIII:

Future Directions and Technologies in Cardiac Mapping and Imaging of Cardiac Arrhythmias
84
Myocardial Elastography
85 Electromechanical Wave Imaging
86 Principles of Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Myocardium: Clinical Applications
87 Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging Tractography of the Heart
88 Molecular Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Cardiac Electrophysiology
89 Real‐Time MRI Mapping and Ablation
90 Robotic Navigation for Atrial Fibrillation: Mapping and Ablation
91 Mapping and Ablation in patients with VT Storm: Role of Neuraxial Therapeutics
92 Appropriateness of Mapping and Imaging Modalities in Interventional
Electrophysiology
93 How to Avoid Complications of Mapping and Ablation
94 Summary and Consensus of Guidelines for Cardiac Mapping and Ablation
95 A Roadmap to a Non‐invasive Radiosurgical Approach to Ablate
the Pulmonary Vein Antra for an Effective Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation:
Basic and Technical Principles
96 Future of Cardiac Mapping
97 The Evolution of Cardiac Mapping: Past, Present, Future
Epilogue
Index