While bringing into focus the major advances in cardiac pacing over the last 5-6 years this book places particular emphasis on new techniques for the treatment of congestive heart failure. Other topics include new and unusual indications for pacemakers, the clinical aspects of expanding pacemaker memory and stored electrograms in the diagnosis of arrhythmias, automatic mode switching, the pacemaker/ICD interface, complex pacemaker electrocardiography and advances in pacemaker follow-up. This book will be a valuable resource for those involved in the care of patients with implanted devices.
Jacques Edmond Mugica.
Preface.
Part I: Implantation and Explantation .
1. Implantation Techniques for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy.
Peter H. Belott.
2. Pacing in Vasovagal Syncope: Are too Many or too Few Pacemakers Implanted?.
David G. Benditt and Mary E. McGrory-Usset .
3. Unusual Indications for Cardiac Pacing.
Chu-Pak Lau, Hung-Fat Tse, Kathy Lai-Fun Lee and S. Serge Barold .
4. Pacing for Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation: Fact or Fancy?.
Panos E. Vardas and Emmanuel M. Kanoupakis.
5. Extraction of Pacing and Defibrillation Leads: Current Concepts and Methods.
Charles J. Love.
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Part II: Multisite Pacing in Heart Failure.
6. Multisite Pacing for Heart Failure: from Electrophysiology to Hemodynamics.
Luigi Padeletti, Maria Cristina Porciani, Alessandra Sabini, Cristina Tosti Guerra, Andrea Colella, Gabriele Demarchi, Paolo Pieragnoli, and Antonio Michelucci .
7. Ventricular Resynchronization: Predicting Responders.
David A. Kass .
8. Electrocardiography of Multisite Ventricular Pacing.
St éphane Garrigue, S. Serge Barold, and Jacques Cl émenty .
9. Arrhythmias of Biventricular Pacemakers and ICDs.
S. Serge Barold, St éphane Garrigue, Carsten W. Israel, Ignacio Gallardo, and Jacques Cl émenty .
Part III. Advances in Technology .
10. Left Ventricular Stimulation: Epicardial, Transvenous or Endocardial?.
Rick McVenes .
11. Permanent and Temporary Single-Lead VDD and DDD Pacing: State of the Art.
I. Eli Ovsyshcher an d Eugene Crystal .
12. Pacemaker Memory: Basic Concepts and New Technology.
Paul A. Levine, Robert E. Smith Jr., Balakrishnan Shankar, Greg Hauck, Jeffrey Snell, Andre Walker and Mark Kroll .
13. Future Trends in Pacemaker Technology.
Michael R. Gold and David A. Casavant .
Part IV. Pacemaker Follow-Up.
14. Diagnosis of Supraventricular Tachyarrhythmias by Automatic Mode Switching Algorithms of Dual Chamber Pacemakers.
S. Serge Barold, Carsten W. Israel, Roland X. Stroobandt, St éphane Garrigue, Chu-Pak Lau, and Ignacio Gallardo.
15. Pacemaker Memory: Diagnosis of Atrial Tachyarrhythmias.
Carsten W. Israel and S. Serge Barold.
16. Diagnostic Algorithms for the Detection of Ventricular Tachycardia by Implanted Pacemakers.
S. Serge Barold and Michael Eldar.
17. Evaluation of the Pacing Function of Dual- and Triple-Chamber ICDs.
Sergio L. Pinski.
18. Complexity of Follow-up in Multisite Pacing.
Arnaud Lazarus .
19. Electromagnetic Interference with Implantable Cardiac Devices.
David L. Hayes .
Index