The Cardiac Conduction System

Dr. Jensen is an Assistant Professor, in the Department of Medical Biology, at the University of Amsterdam. His research focus is cardiac evolution from fish to man. He also studies expression of genes, development, anatomy, and physiology. He is interested in the evolutional conservation of the building plan of the heart, in the rich variation of cardiac chambers, septa, and architecture. Dr. Bas Boukens is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology at Maastricht University. He has researched and studied arrhythmogenic remodeling in explanted human hearts and dynamics of ventricular fibrillation in sheep. He’s also investigated the mechanism of arrhythmias in J-wave syndromes, the role of autonomic nervous system in cardiac repolarization and in mechanisms of arrhythmias resulting from acute ischemia.

• Part 1 Introduction1. Defining the Conduction SystemPart 2 Development and Evolution2. History of the Cardiac Conduction System3. Development of the Cardiac Conduction System4. Regulatory Networks in the Cardiac Conduction System5. Cardiac Conduction System in Mammals6. Cardiac Conduction System in Non-Mammalian VertebratesPart 3 Electrophysiology7. Electrophysiology of the Sinus Node8. Electrophysiology of the Atrioventricular Node9. His Bundle, Bundle Branches, Purkinje Cells10. Autonomic Modulation of the Conduction SystemPart 4 Disease and Treatment11. Conduction System Diseases and Mechanism of Arrhythmias12. The Therapeutic Potential of Conduction System Pacing13. Modeling of the Cardiac Conduction System14. Building and Repairing the Cardiac Conduction System15. Corrective Surgery and the Conduction System