Description
Book SynopsisVariants of Ventricular Preexcitation: Recognition and Treatment provides a unique opportunity for general cardiologists and electrophysiologists to find in one text the intricacies of recognizing and treating a group of disorders that has intrigued physicians for more than 100 years.
from the Foreword by Mark E. Josephson, MD, Chief, Cardiovascular Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA
Drs Sternick and Wellens combine their expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias to bring you this complete overview of decrementally conducting accessory pathways and their role in cardiac arrhythmias.
This is the first book dedicated to these special types of accessory pathways, their recognition and management. By covering the uncommon varieties of ventricular preexcitation, this book supports you in improving patient care by:
- Helping you to identify decrementally conducting AV fibers- which comprise 3-5 % of
Table of Contents
Foreword vii
Acknowledgements ix
1 Historical notes and classification of the variants of ventricular preexcitation 1
2 The anatomy of decrementally conducting fibers 7
3 Atriofascicular pathways and decrementally conducting long atrioventricular pathways 15
4 The short AV decrementally conducting fibers 59
5 Nodoventricular and Nodofascicular fibers 75
6 Fasciculoventricular fibers 83
7 Conduction disturbances in accessory pathways 103
8 Automaticity in decrementally conducting fibers 117
9 Differential diagnosis of left bundle branch block-shaped tachycardias 131
Index 149
A colour plate section faces p. 22
