Basic Cardiac Electrophysiology for the Clinician

José Jalife, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.H.R.S.Professor and Chairman of PharmacologyProfessor of Medicine and PediatricsDirector, Institute for Cardiovascular ResearchSUNY Upstate Medical UniversitySyracuse, NYMario Delmar, M.D., Ph.D., F.H.R.S.Professor of PharmacologyCo-Director, Institute for Cardiovascular ResearchSUNY Upstate Medical UniversitySyracuse, NY Justus Anumonwo, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of PharmacologyMember, Institute for Cardiovascular ResearchSUNY Upstate Medical UniversitySyracuse, NY Omer Berenfeld Jerome Kalifa

• Acknowledgments, vii Foreword to the Second Edition by Douglas P. Zipes, ixForeword to the First Edition by Douglas P. Zipes, xiIntroduction, 1Chapter 1 Bioelectricity, 7Chapter 2 Ion Channels, 43Chapter 3 Ion Channel Regulation, 72Chapter 4 Impulse Initiation and Propagation in Cardiac Muscle, 92Chapter 5 Rate Dependency of Discontinuous Propagation, 121Chapter 6 Basic Mechanisms of Cardiac Arrhythmias, 152Chapter 7 Rotors, Spirals, and Scroll Waves in the Heart, 191Chapter 8 Rotors and the Mechanisms of Atrial Fibrillation, 224Chapter 9 Molecular Mechanisms of Ventricular Fibrillation, 254Chapter 10 Inheritable Arrhythmogenic Diseases, 276Bibliography, 316Index, 335