Dedication |
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Acknowledgments |
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Contributors |
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Preface |
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Preface to the First Edition |
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Part 1. Historical Perspectives |
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Historical Notes on the Mapping of Arrhythmias: The Contributions of George Ralph Mines |
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3 | (12) |
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Part 2. Methodological and Technical Considerations |
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The Interpretation of Cardiac Electrograms |
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15 | (26) |
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Methodology of Cardiac Mapping |
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41 | (18) |
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Noncontact Endocardial Mapping |
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59 | (44) |
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Principles of Nonfluoroscopic Mapping: Nonfluoroscopic Electroanatomical and Electromechanical Cardiac Mapping |
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103 | (16) |
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Principles of Magnetocardiographic Mapping |
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119 | (12) |
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Fast Fluorescent Mapping of Electrical Activity in the Heart: Practical Guide to Experimental Design and Applications |
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131 | (26) |
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Precision and Reproducibility of Cardiac Mapping |
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157 | (30) |
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The Ideal Cardiac Mapping System |
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187 | (10) |
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Part 3. Mapping in Experimental Models of Cardiac Arrhythmias |
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The Role of Myocardial Architecture and Anisotropy as a Cause of Ventricular Arrhythmias in Pathological States |
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197 | (40) |
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The Figure-of-Eight Model of Reentrant Ventricular Arrhythmias |
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237 | (38) |
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Demonstration of Microreentry |
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275 | (16) |
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Optical Mapping of the Effects of Defibrillation Shocks in Cell Monolayers |
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291 | (20) |
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Effects of Pharmacological Interventions on Reentry Around a Ring of Anisotropic Myocardium: A Study with High-Resolution Epicardial Mapping |
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311 | (12) |
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Microscopic Discontinuities as a Basis for Reentrant Arrhythmias |
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323 | (18) |
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Mapping in Explanted Hearts |
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341 | (22) |
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Efferent Autonomic Innervation of the Atrium: Assessment by Isointegral Mapping |
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363 | (10) |
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Mapping of Atrial Flutter |
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373 | (10) |
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Mapping of Normal and Arrhythmogenic Activation of the Rabbit Atrioventricular Node |
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383 | (20) |
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Mapping of the AV Node in the Experimental Setting |
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403 | (26) |
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Part 4. Noninvasive Methods of Cardiac Mapping |
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Mapping of Atrial Arrhythmias: Role of P Wave Morphology |
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429 | (26) |
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Surface Electrocardiographic Mapping of Ventricular Tachycardia: Correlation with Electrophysiological Mapping |
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455 | (12) |
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Body Surface Potential Mapping for the Localization of Ventricular Preexcitation Sites and Ventricular Tachycardia Breakthroughs |
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467 | (16) |
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Clinical Application of Magnetocardiographic Mapping |
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483 | (14) |
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Part 5. Mapping of Supraventricular Tachyarrhythmias |
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Endocardial Catheter Mapping in Patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome: Implications for Radiofrequency Ablation |
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497 | (20) |
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Endocardial Catheter Mapping in Patients with Mahaim and Other Variants of Preexcitation |
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517 | (20) |
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Endocardial Catheter Mapping of Atrial Flutter |
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537 | (24) |
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Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation in Humans: Initiation and Maintenance |
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561 | (16) |
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Mapping of Atrial Fibrillation: Clinical Observations |
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577 | (18) |
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Part 6. Mapping of Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias |
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Substrate Mapping for Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia in Coronary Artery Disease |
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595 | (10) |
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Intraoperative Mapping of Ventricular Tachycardia in Patients with Myocardial Infarction: New Insights into Mechanisms and Electroanatomical Correlations in Septal Tachycardias |
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605 | (14) |
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Dynamic Analysis of Postinfarction Monomorphic and Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardias |
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619 | (16) |
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Mapping of Unstable Ventricular Tachycardia |
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635 | (14) |
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Subthreshold Electrical Stimulation: A Novel Technique in Localization and Identification of Target Sites During Catheter Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias |
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649 | (18) |
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Transcoronary Venous Mapping of Ventricular Tachycardia |
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667 | (14) |
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Transthoracic Epicardial Mapping and Ablation Technique |
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681 | (12) |
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Nonfluoroscopic Mapping of Supraventricular Tachycardia |
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693 | (16) |
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Optical Mapping of Cellular Repolarization in the Intact Heart |
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709 | (20) |
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Techniques for Mapping Ventricular Fibrillation and Defibrillation |
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729 | (18) |
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Disorders of Cardiac Repolarization and Arrhythmogenesis in the Long QT Syndrome |
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747 | (28) |
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Index |
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Color Appendix |
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