Dedication Acknowledgments Contributors Preface Preface to First Edition Part 1. Historical Perspectives Chapter 1. Historical Notes on the Mapping of Arrhythmias: The Contributions of George Ralph MinesMichiel J. Janse, MDPart 2. Methodological and Technical ConsiderationsChapter 2. The Interpretation of Cardiac ElectrogramsMartin Biermann, MD, Mohammad Shenasa, MD, Martin Borggrefe, MD, Gerhard Hindricks, MD, Wilhelm Haverkamp, MD, and Gunter Breithardt, MDChapter 3. Methodology of Cardiac MappingHaris J. Sih, PhD and Edward J. Berbari, PhDChapter 4. Noncontact Endocardial MappingRichard Schilling, MD, Nicholas S. Peters, MD, Allen Kadish, MD, and D. Wyn Davies, MDChapter 5. Principles of Nonfluoroscopic Mapping: Nonfluoroscopic Electroanatomical and Electromechanical Cardiac MappingShlomo A. Ben-Haim, MD, DScChapter 6. Principles of Magnetocardiographic MappingJukka Nenonen, Dr. Tech., Juha Montonen, Dr. Tech., and Markku Makijarvi, MDChapter 7. Fast Fluorescent Mapping of Electrical Activity in the Heart: Practical Guide to Experimental Design and ApplicationsIgor R. Efimov, PhD, Martin Biermann, MD, and Douglas Zipes, MDChapter 8. Precision and Reproducibility of Cardiac MappingMartin Biermann, MD, Martin Borggrefe, MD, Robert Johna, MD, Wilhelm Haverkamp, MD, Mohammad Shenasa, MD, and Gunter Breithardt, MDChapter 9. The Ideal Cardiac Mapping SystemRaymond E. Ideker, MD, PhD, Patrick D. Wolf, PhD, Edward Simpson, MS, Eric E. Johnson, MD, Susan M. Blanchard, PhD, and William M. Smith, PhDPart 3. Mapping in Experimental Models of Cardiac ArrhythmiasChapter 10. The Role of Myocardial Architecture and Anisotropy as a Cause of Ventricular Arrhythmias in Pathological StatesNicholas S. Peters, MD and Andrew L. Wit, PhDChapter 11. The Figure-of-Eight Model of Reentrant Ventricular ArrhythmiasNabil El-Sherif, MD, Edward B. Caref, PhD, and Mark Restivo, PhDChapter 12. Demonstration of MicroreentryHasan Garan, MDChapter 13. Optical Mapping of the Effects of Defibrillation Shocks in Cell MonolayersVladimir G. Fast, PhD and Andre G. Kleber, MDChapter 14. Effects of Pharmacological Interventions on Reentry Around a Ring of Anisotropic Myocardium: A Study with High-Resolution Epicardial MappingJosep Brugada, MD, PhD, Lucas Boersma, MD, and Maurits Allessie, MD, PhDChapter 15. Microscopic Discontinuities as a Basis for Reentrant ArrhythmiasMadison S. Spach, MDChapter 16. Mapping in Explanted HeartsJacques M.T. de Bakker, PhD and Michiel J. Janse, MDChapter 17. Efferent Autonomic Innervation of the Atrium: Assessment by Isointegral MappingPierre L. Page, MD and Rene Cardinal, PhDChapter 18. Mapping of Atrial FlutterWolfgang Schoels, MD and Nabil El-Sherif, MDChapter 19. Mapping of Normal and Arrhythmogenic Activation of the Rabbit Atrioventricular NodeJacques Billette, MD, PhD, Jun Wang, MD, PhD, Karim Khalife, BSc, and Li-Jen Lin, MDChapter 20. Mapping of the AV Node in the Experimental SettingPeter Loh, MD, Jacques M.T. de Bakker, PhD, Meleze Hocini, MD, and Michiel J. Janse, MDPart 4. Noninvasive Methods of Cardiac MappingChapter 21. Mapping of Atrial Arrhythmias: Role of P Wave MorphologyArne SippensGroenewegen, MD, PhD, Franz X. Roithinger, MD, and Michael D. Lesh, MDChapter 22. Surface Electrocardiographic Mapping of Ventricular Tachycardia: Correlation with Electrophysiological MappingJohn M. Miller, MD, Jefferey E. Olgin, MD, Thabet Al-Sheikh, MD, and Gregory T. Altemose, MDChapter 23. Body Surface Potential Mapping for the Localization of Ventricular Preexcitation Sites and Ventricular Tachycardia BreakthroughsReginald Nadeau, MD and Pierre Savard, PhDChapter 24. Clinical Application of Magnetocardiographic MappingMarkku Makijarvi, MD, Helena Hanninen, MD, Petri Korhonen, MD, Juha Montonen, Dr.Tech., and Jukka Nenonen, Dr.Tech.Part 5. Mapping of Supraventricular TachyarrhythmiasChapter 25. Endocardial Catheter Mapping in Patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome: Implications for Radiofrequency AblationKarl-Heinz Kuck, MD and Riccardo Cappato, MDChapter 26. Endocardial Catheter Mapping in Patients with Mahaim and Other Variants of PreexcitationHans Kottkamp, MD and Gerhard Hindricks, MDChapter 27. Endocardial Catheter Mapping of Atrial FlutterFrancisco G. Cosio, MD, Antonio Goicolea, MD, Agustin Pastor, MD, Ambrosio Nunez, MD, Maria Antonia Montero, MD, and Maria Alcaraz, MDChapter 28. Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation in Humans: Initiation and MaintenanceMichel Haissaguerre, MD, Pierre Jais, MD, Dipen C. Shah, MD, Meleze Hocini, MD, Laurent Macle, MD, Rukshen Weerasooriya, MD, Teiichi Yamane, MD, Kee-Joon Choi, MD, Christophe Scavee, MD, Florence Raybaud, MD, Stephane Garrigue, MD, and Jacques Clementy, MDChapter 29. Mapping of Atrial Fibrillation: Clinical ObservationsRiccardo Cappato, MD, Sabine Ernst, MD, Feifan Ouyang, MD, and Karl-Heinz Kuck, MDPart 6. Mapping of Ventricular TachyarrhythmiasChapter 30. Substrate Mapping for Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia in Coronary Artery DiseaseTimothy W. Smith, D.Phil., MD and Mark E. Josephson, MDChapter 31. Intraoperative Mapping of Ventricular Tachycardia in Patients with Myocardial Infarction: New Insights into Mechanisms and Electroanatomical Correlations in Septal TachycardiasPierre L. Page, MD, Wilhelm Kaltenbrunner, MD, and Rene Cardinal, PhDChapter 32. Dynamic Analysis of Postinfarction Monomorphic and Polymorphic Ventricular TachycardiasRene Cardinal, PhD, Alain Vinet, PhD, Francois Helie, MSc, Michel Vermeulen, B Pharm, MScA, Pierre Rocque, BSc, and Pierre L. Page, MDChapter 33. Mapping of Unstable Ventricular TachycardiaWilliam Stevenson, MD and Peter L. Friedman, MD, PhDChapter 34. Subthreshold Electrical Stimulation Mapping in Localization and Identification of Target Sites During Catheter Ablation of Cardiac ArrhythmiasMohammad Shenasa, MD, Stephan Willems, MD, Gerhard Hindricks, MD, Jafar Shenasa, BSc, Xu Chen, MD, Hossein Shenasa, MD, MSc, Martin Borggrefe, MD, and Gunter Breithardt, MDPart 7. New FrontiersChapter 35. Transcoronary Venous Mapping of Ventricular TachycardiaPaolo Della Bella, MD, Claudio Tondo, MD, Corrado Carbucicchio, MD, Stefania Riva, MD, Gaetano Fassini, MD, and Paola Galimberti, MDChapter 36. Transthoracic Epicardial Mapping and Ablation TechniqueEduardo A. Sosa, MD, Mauricio Scanavacca, MD, and Andre D'Avila, MDChapter 37. Nonfluoroscopic Mapping of Supraventricular TachycardiaGerhard Hindricks, MD and Hans Kottkamp, MDChapter 38. Optical Mapping of Cellular Repolarization in the Intact HeartKenneth R. Laurita, PhD and David Rosenbaum, MDChapter 39. Techniques for Mapping Ventricular Fibrillation and DefibrillationWilliam M. Smith, PhD and Raymond E. Ideker, MD, PhDChapter 40. Disorders of Cardiac Repolarization and Arrhythmogenesis in the Long QT SyndromeNabil El-Sherif, MD and Gioia Turitto, MD Index Color Appendix
