Essential Cardiac Electrophysiology: With Self-Assessment (Blackwell's Essentials)

Essential Cardiac Electrophysiology With Self Assessment......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Foreword......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 13
List of Abbreviations......Page 15
1 Ions, channels, and currents......Page 17
1.1 Potassium channels and currents......Page 22
1.2 Sodium channels and currents......Page 28
1.3 Calcium channels and currents......Page 32
2 Electrophysiologic effects of cardiac autonomic activity......Page 37
2.1 Adrenergic receptors......Page 39
2.2 Cholinergic receptors......Page 41
2.3 Purinergic receptors......Page 42
3 Mechanisms of arrhythmias......Page 46
4 Sinus node dysfunction and AV blocks......Page 59
5 Supraventricular tachycardia......Page 73
5.1 Atrial flutter......Page 88
5.2 Atrial tachycardias......Page 93
5.3 Atrial fibrillation......Page 99
5.4 Automatic junctional tachycardia......Page 109
5.5 AV node reentry tachycardias......Page 110
5.6 AV reentrant tachycardia......Page 119
6 Differential diagnosis of wide complex tachycardia......Page 143
7.1 Ventricular tachycardia in the presence of coronary artery disease......Page 148
7.2 Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy ARVD/C......Page 169
7.3 Ventricular arrhythmias in hypertrophic and dilated ardiomyopathy......Page 175
7.4 Long QT syndrome and Torsade de Pointes......Page 183
7.5 Brugada syndrome......Page 193
7.6 Ventricular tachycardia in structurally normal heart......Page 199
7.7 Bundle branch reentry ventricular tachycardia......Page 206
7.8 Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia......Page 210
7.9 Miscellaneous forms of ventricular arrhythmias......Page 213
8 Sudden cardiac death and risk stratification......Page 218
9 Cardiac arrhythmias in patients with neuro-muscular disorders......Page 230
10 Syncope......Page 234
11 Pharmacologic therapy of arrhythmias......Page 245
11.1 Pharmacologic principles as applied to antiarrhythmic drugs......Page 246
11.2 Antiarrhythmic drugs......Page 250
11.3 Beta blockers......Page 255
11.4 Class III antiarrhythmic drugs......Page 256
11.5 Calcium channel blockers......Page 262
11.6 Adenosine......Page 263
11.7 Digoxin......Page 265
12 Electrical therapy for cardiac arrhythmias......Page 270
12.1 Cardioversion defibrillation......Page 272
12.2 Pacemakers......Page 274
12.3 Implantable defibrillators......Page 281
Self-assessment answers......Page 291
Index......Page 295