(eBook) Electrical Diseases of the Heart – VOL 1 – 2nd Edition by Ihor Gussak

This is the PDF eBook version for Electrical Diseases of the Heart – VOL 1 – Basic Foundations and Primary Electrical Diseases 2nd Edition by Ihor Gussak, Charles Antzelevitch, Arthur A. M. Wilde, Brian D. Powell, Michael J. Ackerman, Win-Kuang Shen

Table of Contents

Basic Cardiac Electrophysiology- Promises Kept and Promises to Keep.- Basic Physiology of Ion Channel Function.- Developmental Aspects of the Electrophysiology of the Heart: Function Follows Form.- Anatomic and Histopathologic Characteristics of the Conductive Tissues of the Heart.- Neural Regulation of the Heart in Health and Disease.- Mechanisms of Cardiac Arrhythmia.- Mechanisms of Action of Antiarrhythmic Drugs in Ventricular Arrhythmias.- Mechanisms of Action of Antiarrhythmic Drugs in Atrial Fibrillation.- Mechano-Electrical Interactions and their Role in Electrical Function of the Heart.- Pathological Roles of the Cardiac Sodium Channel Late Current (late INa).- Sodium Ion Channelopathies.- L-Type Calcium Channel Disease.- Nerve Sprouting, Defibrillation and Calcium Waves.- K Channelopathies (IKs, IKr, and Ito).- Cardiac ATP-Sensitive Potassium Channels and Associated Channelopathies.- Cardiac KATP Channels in Health and Diseases.- Ca2 Release Channels (Ryanodine Receptors) and Arrhythmogenesis.- Caveolae and Arrhythmogenesis.- Senescence and Arrhythmogenesis.- Comparisons of Substrates Responsible for Atrial versus Ventricular Fibrillation.- Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Health and Cardiac Disease.- Electrophysiological Remodeling in Heart Failure.- Ventricular Electrical Remodeling in Compensated Cardiac Hypertrophy.- Physiological and Other Biological Pacemakers.- Cardiac Memory: From Electrical Curiosity to Clinical Diagnostic and Research Tool.- Heritable Arrhythmogenic Channelopathies, Primary Electrical Diseases, and Sudden Cardiac Death.- Celebrating the Challenge of Cardiac Arrhythmias.- Congenital Long QT Syndrome.- Brugada Syndrome – Clinical and Genetic Aspects.- Brugada Syndrome: Cellular Mechanisms and Approaches to Therapy.- Early Repolarization Syndrome: Epidemiology, Genetics, and Risk Stratification.- Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia.- Andersen-Tawil and Timothy Syndromes.- Short QT Syndrome.- Progressive Cardiac Conduction Disease.- Genetics of Atrial Fibrillation.- Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation.