Back Sternick / Wellens Variants of Ventricular Preexcitation

Recognition and Treatment
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-99498-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 168 Seiten, E-Book

"Variants of Ventricular Preexcitation: Recognition andTreatment provides a unique opportunity for generalcardiologists and electrophysiologists to find in one text theintricacies of recognizing and treating a group of disorders thathas intrigued physicians for more than 100 years."
--from the Foreword by Mark E. Josephson, MD, Chief,Cardiovascular Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,Boston, USA
Drs Sternick and Wellens combine their expertise in thediagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias to bring you thiscomplete overview of decrementally conducting accessory pathwaysand their role in cardiac arrhythmias.
This is the first book dedicated to these special types ofaccessory pathways, their recognition and management. By coveringthe uncommon varieties of ventricular preexcitation, this booksupports you in improving patient care by:
* * Helping you to identify decrementally conducting AV fibers-which comprise 3-5 % of all accessory AV pathways
* Explaining exactly what information can be obtained from the12-lead ECG
* Showing how to identify and localize these pathways during anelectrophysiologic study
* Detailing the proper treatment and how to treat thesepatients
By explaining the fundamental pathophysiology as well as thediverse clinical presentation of arrhythmias, Drs Sternick andWellens demystify the subject of the different variants ofdecrementally conducting accessory pathways leading to ventricularpre-excitation and their role in cardiac arrhythmias.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Back Sternick, Eduardo

Wellens, Hein J. J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword vii
Acknowledgements ix
1 Historical notes and classification of the variants of ventricular preexcitation 1
2 The anatomy of decrementally conducting fibers 7
3 Atriofascicular pathways and decrementally conducting long atrioventricular pathways 15
4 The short AV decrementally conducting fibers 59
5 Nodoventricular and Nodofascicular fibers 75
6 Fasciculoventricular fibers 83
7 Conduction disturbances in accessory pathways 103
8 Automaticity in decrementally conducting fibers 117
9 Differential diagnosis of left bundle branch block-shaped tachycardias 131
Index 149
A colour plate section faces p. 2

Über Autor(innen)

EDUARDO BACK STERNICK is Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory, Biocor Instituto, Santa Casa, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He authored many publications on Mahaim fibers which appeared in the leading cardiology journals. He obtained a PhD in cardiac electrophysiology at Maastricht University in 2004.
HEIN J WELLENS, Professor of Cardiology, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, has been in the forefront of modern cardiac arrhythmology for close to 40 years. He wrote or co-authored over 540 peer reviewed articles, 246 chapters in books and was author or (co)editor of 17 books on cardiology.