From anatomy and diagnostic criteria through specific mapping and ablation techniques, Catheter Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias, 4th Edition, covers all you need to know in this fast-changing field. Ideal for practitioners who need a comprehensive, user-friendly ablation text for the electrophysiology lab or office setting, this authoritative reference offers quick access to practical content, using dynamic videos, detailed tables, and high-quality images to help you apply what you learn in your practice.

Key Features
* Incorporates recent, exciting developments in the field, including new mapping, imaging, and catheter technologies and ablation techniques.
* Contains new chapters on Pulmonary Vein Isolation by a Cryoballoon Catheter; Substrate-Based Ablation for Ventricular Tachycardia; and Ablation of Genetically Triggered Ventricular Tachycardia/Fibrillation.
* Offers new and expanded coverage of difficult cases VT ablation, including VT storm and use of hemodynamic support during ablation; new techniques for ablation of persistent and long-lasting persistent atrial fibrillation; cryoballoon-based pulmonary vein isolation to treat atrial fibrillation; and more.
* Offers expert guidance on atrial tachycardia and flutter, atrial fibrillation, atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia, tachycardias related to accessory atrioventricular connections, ventricular tachycardia, transseptal catheterization techniques, ablation for pediatric patients, and patient safety and complications.
* Helps you master each approach with exceptional visual guidance from nearly 300 new illustrations and figures, including many new ECGs, intracardiac recordings, as well as 3D mapping, ultrasound and fluoroscopic images.
* Includes numerous tables that provide quick access to key points, arrhythmia mechanisms, diagnostic criteria, target sites for ablation, use of special equipment, complications, and troubleshooting problems and their solutions.
* Provides access to 45 video clips (18 are new!) including newer techniques for transseptal access to the left atrium, expanded use of intracardiac ultrasound, techniques of pericardial access, and many more.
* Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Author Information
By Shoei K. Stephen Huang, MD, Chair Professor of Medicine, Tzu Chi University School of Medicine; Director, Center of Cardiovascular Medicine, Taichung Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan; Former Professor of Medicine with Tenure, Texas A&M University Health Science Center; Former Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing, Baylor-Scott & White Health, Temple, Texas and John M. Miller, MD, Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Director, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Indiana University Health, Indianapolis, Indiana

PART 1: FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF TRANS-CATHETER ENERGY DELIVERY

1. Biophysics and Pathophysiology of Radiofrequency Lesion Formation

2. Guiding Lesion Formation During Radiofrequency Energy Catheter Ablation

3. Irrigated Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation

4. Catheter Cryoablation: Biophysics and Clinical Applications

5. Cardiac Anatomy for Catheter Mapping and Ablation of Arrhythmias


PART 2: CARDIAC MAPPING AND IMAGING

6. Fundamentals of Intracardiac Mapping

7. Catheter Three-Dimensional Mapping Systems

8. Remote Catheter Navigation Systems

9. Intracardiac Echocardiography, Computed Cardiac Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Guiding Mapping and Ablation


PART 3: CATHETER ABLATION OF ATRIAL TACHYCARDIAS AND FLUTTER

10. Ablation of Focal Atrial Tachycardias

11. Ablation of Cavo-Tricuspid Isthmus-Dependent Atrial Flutter

12. Ablation of Nonisthmus-Dependent Flutters and Atrial Macroreentry

13. Ablation of Postoperative Atrial Tachycardia in Congenital Heart Disease


PART 4: CATHETER ABLATION OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION

14. Pulmonary Vein Isolation for Atrial Fibrillation

15. Pulmonary Vein Isolation by a Cryoballoon Catheter

16. Ablation of Non-Pulmonary Vein Triggers

17. Substrate-Based Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation

18. Ablation of AF Drivers: Focal Impulse and Rotor Modulation (FIRM)

19. Ablation of Persistent and Long-Lasting Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

20. Epicardial and Endocardial Hybrid Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation


PART 5: CATHETER ABLATION OF ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY TACHYCARDIA AND THE ATRIOVENTRICULAR JUNCTION

21. Ablation of Atrioventricular Junctional Tachycardias: Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry, Variants, and Focal Junctional Tachycardia

22. Atrioventricular Junction Ablation for Heart-Rate Control of Atrial Fibrillation


PART 6: CATHETER ABLATION OF ACCESSORY ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONNECTIONS

23. Ablation of Free-Wall Accessory Pathways

24. Ablation of Posteroseptal Accessory Pathways

25. Ablation of Superoparaseptal and Midseptal Accessory Pathways

26. Ablation of Atriofascicular Accessory Pathways and Variants

27. Special Problems in Ablation of Accessory Pathways


PART 7: CATHETER ABLATION OF VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA

28. Ablation of Ventricular Outflow Tract Tachycardias

29. Ablation of Idiopathic Left and Right Ventricular and Fascicular Tachycardias

30. Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia in Coronary Artery Disease

31. Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia Associated with Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy

32. Ablation of Unstable Ventricular Tachycardia and Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation

33. Substrate-Based Ablation for Ventricular Tachycardia

34. Epicardial Approach to Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia

35. Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia with Congenital Heart Disease

36. Ablation of Genetically Triggered Ventricular Tachycardia

37. Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia with Percutaneous Hemodynamic Support　　


PART 8: MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS

38. Complications Associated with Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Arrhythmias

39. Atrial Transseptal Catheterization

40. Special Considerations for Ablation in Pediatric Patients