The ECG Handbook of Contemporary Challenges

Edited by Mohammad Shenasa, MD; Mark E. Josephson, MD; and N.A. Mark Estes III, MD
Foreword by: Hein J. Wellens, MD

Product Details:
Published March 2015
ISBN: 9781935395881
Format: Paperback and eBook set; eBook
Trim size: 8.5 x 11 inches
246 pages, full color interior

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A state-of-the-art reference on contemporary and challenging issues in electrocardiography.

Amazingly, over a century after the first use of the electrocardiogram, new ECG patterns are being discovered. And in the last few decades, several new electrocardiographic phenomena and markers have emerged that are challenging to physicians and allied professionals who read and interpret ECGs such as early repolarization, ECGs of athletes, Brugada Syndrome, short and long QT syndrome, various channelopathies, and cardiomyopathies.

Internationally recognized experts discuss the most recent evidence-based information on these new observations, complemented with detailed ECG tracings, to provide essential guidance for the optimal interpretation of ECGs in the 21st century.

Audience: Physicians who are involved in sports medicine, emergency department physicians, internists, ECG readers, and pediatric and adult cardiologists.

Editors:

Mohammad Shenasa, MD, FACC, FHRS, FAHA, FESC
Attending Physician, Department of Cardiovascular Services, O’Conner Hospital; Heart & Rhythm Medical Group, San Jose, California

Mark E. Josephson, MD, FACC, FHRS, FAHA
Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine Division; Director, Harvard-Thorndike Electrophysiology Institute and Arrhythmia Service, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Herman C. Dana Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

N.A. Mark Estes III, MD, FACC, FHRS, FAHA, FESC
Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine; Director, New England Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts

Foreword by Hein J. Wellens, MD; Emeritus Professor of Cardiology, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Table of Contents:

1. Normal electrocardiograms today
Galen Wagner

2. ECG Manifestations of Concealed Conduction
Mohammad-Reza Jazayeri

3. P-wave Indices and the PR Interval—Relation to Atrial Fibrillation and Mortality
Konstantinos N. Aronis, Jared W. Magnani

4. The Athlete’s Electrocardiogram
Yousef Bader, Mark Link, N. A. Mark Estes III

5. Electrocardiographic Markers of Arrhythmic Risk and Sudden Cardiac Death in Pediatric and Adolescent Patients
Edward P. Walsh, Dominic J. Abrams

6. Electrocardiographic Markers of Sudden Cardiac Death in Different Substrates
Mohammad Shenasa, Hossein Shenasa

7. Electrocardiographic Markers of Arrhythmic Events and Sudden Death in Channelopathies
Sergio Richter, Josep Brugada, Ramon Brugada, Pedro Brugada

8. Early Repolarization Syndrome: It’s Relationship to ECG Findings and Risk stratification
Arnon Adler, Ofer Havakuk, Raphael Rosso, Sami Viskin

9. Diagnostic Electrocardiographic Criteria of Early Repolarization and Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation
Mélèze Hocini, Ashok J Shah, Pierre Jaïs, Michel Haïssaguerre,

10.  Prevalence and Significance of Early Repolarization (a.k.a. Haïssaguerre or J-wave Pattern/Syndrome)
Victor Froelicher

11.  T-wave Alternans: Electrocardiographic Characteristics and Clinical Value
Stefan H. Hohnloser

12.  Electrocardiographic Markers of Phase 3 and Phase 4 Atrioventricular Block and Progression to Complete Heart Block
John Miller, Rahul Jain, Eric L. Krivitsky

13.  Myocardial Infarction in the Presence of Left Bundle Branch Block or Right Ventricular Pacing
Cory M. Tschabrunn, Mark Josephson

14.  T Wave Memory
Henry Huang, Mark E. Josephson, Alexei Shvilkin

15.  Electrocardiographic Markers of Progressive Cardiac Conduction Disease
Vincent Probst, Hervé Le Marec

16.  Sex and Ethnicity-Related Differences in Electrocardiography
Anne B. Curtis, Hiroko Beck

17.  Electrocardiograms in Biventricular Pacing
John Rickard, Victor Nauffal, Alan Cheng

18.  Effect of Cardiac and Noncardiac Drugs on Electrocardiograms:Electrocardiographic Markers of Drug-Induced Proarrhythmias (QT Prolongation, TdP, and Ventricular Arrhythmias)
Chinmay Patel, Eyad Kanawati, Peter Kowey