Cardiac Mapping Book

	Dedication
	Acknowledgments
	Contributors
	Preface
	Preface to the First Edition
Pt. 1	Historical Perspectives
Ch. 1	Historical Notes on the Mapping of Arrhythmias: The Contributions of George Ralph Mines	3
Pt. 2	Methodological and Technical Considerations
Ch. 2	The Interpretation of Cardiac Electrograms	15
Ch. 3	Methodology of Cardiac Mapping	41
Ch. 4	Noncontact Endocardial Mapping	59
Ch. 5	Principles of Nonfluoroscopic Mapping: Nonfluoroscopic Electroanatomical and Electromechanical Cardiac Mapping	103
Ch. 6	Principles of Magnetocardiographic Mapping	119
Ch. 7	Fast Fluorescent Mapping of Electrical Activity in the Heart: Practical Guide to Experimental Design and Applications	131
Ch. 8	Precision and Reproducibility of Cardiac Mapping	157
Ch. 9	The Ideal Cardiac Mapping System	187
Pt. 3	Mapping in Experimental Models of Cardiac Arrhythmias
Ch. 10	The Role of Myocardial Architecture and Anisotropy as a Cause of Ventricular Arrhythmias in Pathological States	197
Ch. 11	The Figure-of-Eight Model of Reentrant Ventricular Arrhythmias	237
Ch. 12	Demonstration of Microreentry	275
Ch. 13	Optical Mapping of the Effects of Defibrillation Shocks in Cell Monolayers	291
Ch. 14	Effects of Pharmacological Interventions on Reentry Around a Ring of Anisotropic Myocardium: A Study with High-Resolution Epicardial Mapping	311
Ch. 15	Microscopic Discontinuities as a Basis for Reentrant Arrhythmias	323
Ch. 16	Mapping in Explanted Hearts	341
Ch. 17	Efferent Autonomic Innervation of the Atrium: Assessment by Isointegral Mapping	363
Ch. 18	Mapping of Atrial Flutter	373
Ch. 19	Mapping of Normal and Arrhythmogenic Activation of the Rabbit Atrioventricular Node	383
Ch. 20	Mapping of the AV Node in the Experimental Setting	403
Pt. 4	Noninvasive Methods of Cardiac Mapping
Ch. 21	Mapping of Atrial Arrhythmias: Role of P Wave Morphology	429
Ch. 22	Surface Electrocardiographic Mapping of Ventricular Tachycardia: Correlation with Electrophysiological Mapping	455
Ch. 23	Body Surface Potential Mapping for the Localization of Ventricular Preexcitation Sites and Ventricular Tachycardia Breakthroughs	467
Ch. 24	Clinical Application of Magnetocardiographic Mapping	483
Pt. 5	Mapping of Supraventricular Tachyarrhythmias
Ch. 25	Endocardial Catheter Mapping in Patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome: Implications for Radiofrequency Ablation	497
Ch. 26	Endocardial Catheter Mapping in Patients with Mahaim and Other Variants of Preexcitation	517
Ch. 27	Endocardial Catheter Mapping of Atrial Flutter	537
Ch. 28	Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation in Humans: Initiation and Maintenance
Ch. 29	Mapping of Atrial Fibrillation: Clinical Observations	577
Pt. 6	Mapping of Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias
Ch. 30	Substrate Mapping for Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia in Coronary Artery Disease	595
Ch. 31	Intraoperative Mapping of Ventricular Tachycardia in Patients with Myocardial Infarction: New Insights into Mechanisms and Electroanatomical Correlations in Septal Tachycardias	605
Ch. 32	Dynamic Analysis of Postinfarction Monomorphic and Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardias	619
Ch. 33	Mapping of Unstable Ventricular Tachycardia	635
Ch. 34	Subthreshold Electrical Stimulation: A Novel Technique in Localization and Identification of Target Sites During Catheter Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias	649
Pt. 7	New Frontiers
Ch. 35	Transcoronary Venous Mapping of Ventricular Tachycardia	667
Ch. 36	Transthoracic Epicardial Mapping and Ablation Technique	681
Ch. 37	Nonfluoroscopic Mapping of Supraventricular Tachycardia	693
Ch. 38	Optical Mapping of Cellular Repolarization in the Intact Heart	709
Ch. 39	Techniques for Mapping Ventricular Fibrillation and Defibrillation	729
Ch. 40	Disorders of Cardiac Repolarization and Arrhythmogenesis in the Long QT Syndrome	747
	Index	775
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