This popular text enters its Second Edition with important coverage of technological advances, recent key clinical trials, and troubleshooting. Nine new chapters address:
Cheuk-Man Yu, MBChB(CUHK), MRCP(UK), MD(CUHK), FHKCP, FHKAM(Medicine), FRACP, FRCP(Edin/London) Professor, Head of Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital; and Clinical Director of Institute of Vascular Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
David L. Hayes, MD Chair, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic; and Professor of Medicine, Mayo College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA
Angelo Auricchio, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Cardiology, University Hospital Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany; and Director Heart Failure Program, Fondazione Cardiocentro Ticino, Lugano, Switzerland
Contributors
p. vii
Foreword
p. xi
The epidemiology of heart failure and commonly associated conduction disorders
p. 1
Comprehensive pharmacologic management strategies for heart failure
p. 15
Electrical activation sequence
p. 35
Myocardial mechano-energetics
p. 55
Assessment of electrical and mechanical dyssynchrony: conventional echocardiography
p. 77
Newer echocardiographic techniques for the assessment of cardiac resynchronization therapy
p. 91
Value of non-echocardiographic imaging techniques in cardiac resynchronization therapy
p. 132
Programming and diagnostic features of cardiac resynchronization therapy devices
p. 144
Anatomy of the coronary sinus
p. 166
Techniques for visualizing the coronary sinus and coronary venous anatomy
p. 183
Implantation techniques for cardiac resynchronization therapy
p. 196
Surgical approaches to epicardial left ventricular lead implantation for biventricular pacing
p. 239
Remote navigation implantation technique
p. 250
Clinical trials supporting current indications for CRT
p. 261
Trials of CRT in atrial fibrillation and atrial rhythm management issues
p. 277
Ongoing trials to further shape the future of CRT
p. 290
Consideration of CRT in the pediatric population
p. 301
Importance of the surface electrocardiogram for the assessment of cardiac resynchronization
p. 309
Troubleshooting
p. 324
Optimization of cardiac resynchronization therapy
p. 356
Management strategies for patients not responding to CRT
p. 374
Device-based monitoring and lung impedance
p. 388
Device-based patient management
p. 404
Health economics
p. 419
Index
p. 437
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