Table of Contents
Foreword: Beyond the Shore of Ignorance Ranjan K. Thakur Andrea Natale xiii
Preface: Difficult Decisions in Clinical Electrophysiology-A Case-Based Approach Mark C. Haigney Adam Strickberger xv
The Role of Anticoagulation in a Patient with Atrial Fibrillation and a CHADS2 Score of 1 Alison Brann John D. Day T. Jared Bunch 107
An Approach to Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation in the Elderly John N. Catanzaro Hugh Calkins 119
The Management of Atrial Fibrillation in a Patient with Unrepaired Atrial Septal Defect Shane F. Tsai Steven Kalbfleisch 127
Defibrillation Threshold Testing: Who Doesn't Get It? Frank A. Cuoco Michael R. Gold 135
A Patient with a 40% Ejection Fraction Undergoes Atrioventricular Nodal Ablation for the Management of Atrial Fibrillation with Rapid Ventricular Rates. What Type of Device Should He Receive? Rakesh Latchamsetty Fred Morady 143
A Patient Presents with Longstanding, Severe LV Dysfunction. Is There a Role for Additional Risk Stratification Before ICD? Larisa G. Tereshchenko Ronald D. Berger 151
Should a Patient with Severe Left Ventricular Dysfunction, Congestive Heart Failure, and Right Bundle Branch Block QRS Receive Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy? Christine M. Tompkins Wojciech Zareba 161
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy With and Without Defibrillator in a Commercial Truck Driver with Ischemic Cardiomyopathy and New York Heart Association Class III Heart Failure Jacob C. Jentzer John H. Jentzer 169
Preventing Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Shocks Improves Survival Marshall W. Winner III John D. Hummel 181
The Role of Preventive Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia in the Patient with Coronary Artery Disease, Reduced Left Ventricular Function, and a New Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Implant Suraj Kapa Mathew D. Hutchinson 189
Extraction of Sterile Leads: Is it Beneficial? Charles A. Henrikson Jeffrey A. Brinker 199
How Should Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Lead Failures be Managed and What is the Role of Lead Extraction? Hans J. Moore Michael Goldstein Pamela E. Karasik 209
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Dilemmas with Arrhythmic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy Frank I. Marcus 221
The Evaluation of a Borderline Long QT Interval in an Asymptomatic Patient Manoj N. Obeyesekere Peter Leong-Sit Lome J. Gula Raymond Yee Allan C. Skanes George J. Klein Andrew D. Krahn 227
Evaluation of a Patient with a Positive Family History for Long QT Syndrome Han Goldenberg David T. Huang 239
Atrial Fibrillation and Brugada Syndrome Andrew S. Kim Linda Huffer 249
The Management of Vasovagal Syncope in a Patient with Brugada Syndrome Troy Rhodes Raul Weiss 259
Index 267
