Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation can be used to assist in patient care, stimulate research projects and continue the remarkable advances in the treatment of atrial fibrillation.

Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation covers:

• the fundamental concepts of AF, orgin of signals, computer simulation, and updated reviews of ablation tools
• the present practical approaches to the ablation of specific targets in the fibrillating atria, including pulmonary veins, atrial neutral network, fragmented electrograms, and linear lesions, as well as the strategies in paroxysmal or chronic AF or facing left atrial tachycardias
• the special challenge of heart failure patients, the impact of ablation on mortality, atrial mechanical function, and lessons from surgical AF ablation

Contents

1. Anatomy of the left atrium relevant to atrial fibrillation ablation
2. Mechanisms and significance of fractionated electrograms recorded during atrial fibrillation
3. Computer simulation studies of atrial fibrillation
4. Experimental and theoretical insights into fundamental mechanisms of antiarrhythmic drug actions on atrial fibrillation
5. Mechanisms of atrial fibrillation in animals and humans
6. Three dimensional images in catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation
7. Signal processing of fibrillatory electrograms
8. Emerging technologies in the treatment of atrial fibrillation
9. Mapping and ablation of the atrial neural network
10. Techniques targeting the pulmonary veins
11. Identification and ablation of sites of complex fractionated electrograms
12. Techniques of linear lesion for atrial fibrillation ablation
13. Ablation strategies in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation
14. Ablation strategies for chronic atrial fibrillation
15. Diagnostic algorithm of atrial tachycardia following atrial fibrillation ablation
16. Catheter Ablation of atrial fibrillation in patients with heart failure
17. Morbidity and mortality of ablation versus drugs
18. Atrial Mechanical function after atrial fibrillation ablation
19. Surgery for atrial fibrillation

Index

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