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Cardiac arrhythmias : mechanisms, pathophysiology and treatment / edited by Wilbert S. Aronow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aronow, Wilbert S., Editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arrhythmia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (152 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Cardiac arrhythmias
- Place of Publication:
- IntechOpen 2014
- Rijeka, Croatia : InTech, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is useful for physicians taking care of patients with cardiac arrhythmias and includes six chapters written by experts in their field. Chapter 1 discusses basic mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias. Chapter 2 discusses the chronobiological aspects of the impact of apnoic episodes on ventricular arrhythmias. Chapter 3 discusses navigation, detection, and tracking during cardiac ablation interventions. Chapter 4 discusses epidemiology and pathophysiology of ventricular arrhythmias in several noncardiac diseases, methods used to assess arrhythmia risk, and their association with long-term outcomes. Chapter 5 discusses the treatment of ventricular arrhythmias including indications for implantation of an AICD for primary and for secondary prevention in patients with and without congestive heart failure. Chapter 6 discusses surgical management of atrial fibrillation.
- Notes:
- Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (InTech, viewed October 20, 2022).
- ISBN:
- 953-51-7191-7
- 953-51-1221-X
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