Cardiac arrhythmia: mechanisms, diagnosis, and management

1. Anatomy and Physiology of the Conduction System / Michael R. Lauer and Ruey J. Sung

2. Basic Electrophysiology: Generation of the Cardiac Action Potential / Augustus O. Grant and Michael Carboni

3. Mechanisms of Arrhythmogenesis / Charles Antzelevitch and Alexander Burashnikov

4.1. Genetics of Arrhythmogenic Disorders / Silvia G. Priori and Carlo Napolitano

4.2. Influence of Autonomic Factors and Behavioral State on Vulnerability to Cardiac Arrhythmias / Richard L. Verrier, Julie A. Kovach and Murray A. Mittleman

5. Use of the Electrocardiogram in the Diagnosis of Arrhythmia / David B. Bharucha and Philip J. Podrid

6.1. Role of Holter Monitoring and Exercise Testing for Arrhythmia Assessment and Management / Harold L. Kennedy and Philip J. Podrid

6.2. Heart Rate Variability, Signal-Averaged Electrocardiography QT Dispersion and T Wave Alternans / Daniel Bloomfield, Anthony R. Magnano and J. Thomas Bigger

7. Electrophysiologic Testing and Cardiac Mapping / Hasan Garan and Brian McGovern

8. Antiarrhythmic Drugs / Gerald V. Naccarelli, Philip T. Sager and Bramah N. Singh

9. Cardioversion and Defibrillation / Javier E. Sanchez, Andrew E. Epstein and Raymond E. Ideker

10. Cardiac Pacemakers / Amit Shanker and Sanjeev Saksena

11. Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators / N. A. Mark Estes III and David S. Cannom

12. Catheter and Surgical Ablation for Cardiac Arrhythmias / Ronald Berger, Michael D. Lesh and Hugh Calkins

13. Sinoatrial/Atrial Tachyarrhythmias / Jeffrey J. Goldberger and Alan H. Kadish

14. Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry / Richard I. Fogel and Eric N. Prystowsky

15. Atrial Fibrillation / Arshad Jahangir, Thomas M. Munger and Douglas L. Packer / [et al.]

16. Atrial Flutter / Albert L. Waldo

17. Tachycardias in Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome / Roger A. Marinchak and Seth J. Rials

18. Ventricular Premature Depolarizations and Nonsustained Ventricular Tachycardia / Alfred E. Buxton and James Duc

19. Sustained Monomorphic Ventricular Tachycardia / David Martin and J. Marcus Wharton

20. Polymorphous Ventricular Tachycardia, Including Torsade de Pointes / Stefan H. Hohnloser

21. Sudden Cardiac Death / Philip J. Podrid and Peter R. Kowey

22. Sinus Node Function and Dysfunction / James A. Reiffel

23. Atrioventricular Nodal Conduction Abnormalities / Morton F. Arnsdorf and Ralph Verdino

24. His-Purkinje Disease / Pablo Denes

25. Arrhythmias in Hypertrophic, Dilated, and Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathies / William J. McKenna, Joseph M. Galvin and Shoaib Hamid

26. Arrhythmias in Congenital Heart Disease / Ronald J. Kanter and Arthur Garson

27. Arrhythmias and Conduction Disturbances Associated with Pregnancy / Samer R. Dibs and Leslie A. Saxon

28. Arrhythmia in Athletes / Michael A. Brodsky and Cyril Y. Leung

29. Arrhythmias After Cardiac and Noncardiac Surgery / Mina K. Chung, Craig R. Asher and David Yamada / [et al.]

30. Periinfarction Arrhythmias / Azad V. Ghuran and A. John Camm

31. Arrhythmias in Mitral Valve Disease / Paul Kligfield and Richard B. Devereux

32. Arrhythmias in Cardiac Transplantation / Steven A. Rothman, Joyce Wald and Howard J. Eisen

33. Syncope: Pathophysiology, Evaluation, and Treatment / David G. Benditt.