Practical Cardiac Electrophysiology

Kartikeyan BhargavaSenior Consultant, Cardiologist and Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Medanta Heart Institute, Gurgaon, Haryana, India Samuel J AsirvathamConsultant, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

• Section A: Introduction and Basics of Cardiac ElectrophysiologyElectrophysiology Study: Indications, Hardware and Set-up, Catheter PlacementElectrophysiology Study—Technical Details, Electrograms, Noise and FilteringMeasurements of Basic Intervals, Refractory Periods and Programmed Electrical StimulationSinus Node Function Evaluation and AbnormalitiesAtrioventricular Conduction and Block Section B: Fundamentals of Cardiac Anatomy, Imaging, Mapping and AblationCardiac Anatomy for ElectrophysiologistsImaging in Cardiac ElectrophysiologyConventional Mapping Techniques—FundamentalsThree-dimensional Mapping of Cardiac Arrhythmias: Techniques, Principles and ApplicationRadiofrequency Ablation—Principles and BiophysicsNon-Radiofrequency Sources of Ablation Section C: Supraventricular Tachyarrhythmias—AV Node-depedent TachycardiasBasic Supraventricular Tachycardia Study—ApproachSupraventricular Tachycardias: Baseline Features during Sinus Rhythm and TachycardiaVentricular Pacing Maneuvers for Diagnosis of Supraventricular TachycardiaSupraventricular Tachycardia: Atrial Pacing ManeuversAtrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia: Classification, Electrophysiological Features, and AblationWolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome and Atrioventricular Accessory Pathway-related Arrhythmias: Localization, Mapping and AblationMahaim Fiber Accessory Pathways and Other Variants of PreexcitationJunctional Tachycardia Section D: Supraventricular Tachyarrhythmias— Atrial Tachycardia, Flutter and FibrillationFocal Atrial Tachycardia and its Differentiation from Macroreentrant Atrial TachycardiaAtrial Flutter: Classification, Mechanisms and ManagementAtrial Fibrillation—Classification and Mechanisms of Initiation and MaintenanceAF Ablation: Pulmonary Vein Isolation Techniques, Strategies and PrinciplesAtrial Fibrillation Ablation–Substrate Modification and Other StrategiesAV Junction Ablation for Rate Control in Atrial FibrillationAtrial Fibrillation Ablation: Clinical Studies, Efficacy and ComplicationsSurgical Ablation for Atrial FibrillationAtrial Arrhythmias in Congenital Heart Disease and Post Cardiac Surgery Section E: Ventricular TachyarrhythmiasIntroduction to Ventricular Arrhythmias—Premature beats, Monomorphic Ventricular Tachycardia, Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia, and FibrillationMonomorphic Ventricular Tachycardia: Mechanisms and EtiologyVentricular Tachycardia in Ischemic and Non-ischemic Cardiomyopathy— Reentrant Circuits, Mapping Techniques and Ablation StrategiesVentricular Tachycardia in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia/CardiomyopathyVentricular Tachycardia in Specific Cardiomyopathies - Sarcoidosis and TuberculosisIdiopathic Left Ventricular TachycardiaIdiopathic Outflow Tract Ventricular TachycardiaIdiopathic Ventricular Tachycardia from the Mitral Annulus, Papillary Muscles and Other SitesBundle Branch Reentry: Mechanisms, Diagnosis and ManagementJ Wave SyndromesEarly Repolarization Syndrome and Risk of Sudden Cardiac DeathIdiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation—Mechanisms and Management StrategiesVentricular Arrhythmia Storm—Etiology, Mechanisms and Management Section F: MiscellaneousEntrainment: Principles and Clinical ApplicationsWide QRS Complex Tachycardia: An Electrophysiologic ApproachProvocative Drug Testing in the Electrophysiology LabCatheter Ablation in ChildrenEpicardial Ablation: Techniques and Applications