Research Catalog

Title

Cardiac resynchronization therapy / edited by Cheuk-Man Yu, David L. Hayes, Angelo Auricchio.

Publication

Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Futura, 2008.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Additional Authors

• Yu, Cheuk-Man.
• Hayes, David L.
• Auricchio, Angelo.

Description

xii, 444 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm +

Subjects

• Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators
• Heart Failure > therapy
• Cardiac pacing
• Cardiac Pacing, Artificial > methods
• Pacemaker, Artificial
• Congestive heart failure
• Defibrillators, Implantable

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. The epidemiology of heart failure and commonly associated conduction disorders / Maren E. Jeffery and Mariell Jessup -- 2. Comprehensive pharmacologic management strategies for heart failure / Garrie J. Haas and William T. Abraham -- 3. Electrical activation sequence / Cecilia Fantoni and Angela Auricchio -- 4. Myocardial mechano-energetics / Tammo Delhaas and Frits W. Prinzen -- 5. Assessment of electrical and mechanical dyssynchrony: conventional echocardiography / Ole-A. Breithardt -- 6. Newer echocardiography techniques for the assessment of cardiac resynchronization therapy / Cheuk-Man Yu and Qing Zhang -- 7. Value of non-echocardiographic imaging techniques in cardiac resynchronization therapy / Claudia Ypenburg, Gabe B. Bleeker, Martin J. Schalij and Jeroen J. Bax -- 8. Programming and diagnostic features of cardiac resynchronization therapy devices / David Luria, Osnat Gurevitz and Michael Glikson -- 9. Anatomy of the coronary sinus / Samuel J. Asirvatham -- 10. Techniques for visualizing the coronary sinus and coronary venous anatomy / Jagmeet P. Singh and Angela Auricchio -- 11. Implantation techniques for cardiac resynchronization therapy / Michael O. Sweeney -- 12. Surgical approaches to epicardial left ventricular lead implantation for biventricular pacing / Sandhya K. Balaram, Joseph J. DeRose, Jr. and Jonathan S. Steinberg -- 13. Remote navigation implantation technique / Carlo Pappone and Vincenzo Santinelli -- 14. Clinical trials supporting current indications for CRT / David L. Hayes and William T. Abraham -- 15. Trials of CRT in atrial fibrillation and atrial rhythm management issues / Maurizio Gasparini and Francois Regoli -- 16. Ongoing trials to further shape the future of CRT / David L. Hayes and Cheuk-Man Yu -- 17. Consideration of CRT in the pediatric population / Anne M. Dubin -- 18. Importance of the surface electrocardiogram for the assessment of cardiac resynchronization / S. Serge Barold, Michael C. Giudici and Bengt Herweg -- 19. Troubleshooting / Christophe Leclercq, Philippe Mabo and J. Claude Daubert -- 20. Optimization of cardiac synchronization therapy / Jeffrey Wing-Hong Fung, Stephane Garrigue and Cheuk-Man Yu -- 21. Management strategies for patients not responding to CRT / John P. Boehmer -- 22. Device-based monitoring and lung impedance / Jeffrey Wing-Hong Fung, Philip B. Adamson and Cheuk-Man Yu -- 23. Device-based patient management / Maria Rosa Costanzo and Salpy Pamboukian -- 24. Health economics / Francisco Leyva.

ISBN

• 9781405177399
• 140517739X

LCCN

2007048187

OCLC

• ocn182613553
• 182613553
• SCSB-5425052

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries