Catheter Ablation: A Current Approach on Cardiac Arrhythmias

Front Matter ....Pages i-ix
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 Atrial and Atrioventricular Junctional Anatomy: Myocardial Orientation and Its Heterogeneity  (Shin Inoue, Genyo Ogawa, Taka-Aki Matsuyama)....Pages 3-10
 Anatomy of Aorta, Pulmonary Artery, and Ventricles  (Osamu Igawa)....Pages 11-20
Front Matter ....Pages 21-21
 Entrainment Pacing: A Diagnostic Tool for Reentrant Tachycardia and Its Application for Catheter Ablation  (Ken Okumura, Hideharu Okamatsu)....Pages 23-34
 Para-Hisian Pacing  (Kenzo Hirao)....Pages 35-41
 Entrainment Pacing for Differential Diagnosis of Supraventricular Tachycardias  (Mitsunori Maruyama)....Pages 43-50
Front Matter ....Pages 51-51
 Aortic Sinus Cusps for Catheter Ablation of Supraventricular and Ventricular Arrhythmias  (Takumi Yamada)....Pages 53-63
 Coronary Sinus for Ablation of Ventricular Tachyarrhythmia and Supraventricular  (Seiichiro Matsuo)....Pages 65-72
 Vein of Marshall Chemical Ablation of Atrial Tachyarrhythmias  (Kaoru Okishige)....Pages 73-88
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 Cavo-tricuspid Isthmus-Dependent Atrial Flutter  (Shinsuke Miyazaki)....Pages 91-99
 Uncommon Atrial Flutter  (Yasushi Miyauchi)....Pages 101-108
 Adenosine-Sensitive Atrial Tachycardia  (Hiroshige Yamabe)....Pages 109-117
 Focal Atrial Tachycardia  (Kazuhiro Satomi)....Pages 119-125
 Catheter Ablation of Atrial Tachycardia Following Catheter and Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation  (Hiroshi Nakagawa, Warren M. Jackman)....Pages 127-134
Front Matter ....Pages 135-135
 Pulmonary Vein Isolation: Radiofrequency Energy  (Teiichi Yamane)....Pages 137-143
 Pulmonary Vein Isolation: Cryoballoon Ablation  (Kaoru Okishige)....Pages 145-156
 Radiofrequency HotBalloon Ablation  (Hiroshi Sohara)....Pages 157-167
 Catheter Ablation of Posterior LA Isolation: Box Isolation  (Koichiro Kumagai)....Pages 169-174
 Isolation of Superior Vena Cava  (Koji Higuchi)....Pages 175-182
 Catheter Ablation of Non-pulmonary Vein Foci  (Yoshihide Takahashi)....Pages 183-188
 Stepwise Ablation for Persistent Atrial Fibrillation  (Yoshihide Takahashi)....Pages 189-198
 Substrate Ablation of Persistent AF  (Takeshi Tsuchiya, Takanori Yamaguchi, Akira Fukui)....Pages 199-207
 Autonomic Ganglionated Plexi Ablation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation  (Hiroshi Nakagawa, Benjamin J. Scherlag, Deborah Lockwood, Warren M. Jackman)....Pages 209-217
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 Slow Pathway Ablation for Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia  (Kenichiro Otomo)....Pages 221-227
 Ablation of Superior Slow Pathway in Atypical Fast-Slow Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia  (Yoshiaki Kaneko)....Pages 229-235
 Retrograde Fast Pathway Ablation in Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia  (Yasuteru Yamauchi)....Pages 237-244
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 Free Wall Atrioventricular Accessory Pathways  (Seiji Takatsuki)....Pages 247-256
 Posteroseptal Atrioventricular Accessory Pathways  (Junichi Nitta)....Pages 257-268
 Catheter Ablation of Antero-septal (Supero-paraseptal) and Mid-septal (True Septal) Accessory Pathways  (Takashi Kurita, Ryobun Yasuoka)....Pages 269-281
 Atriofascicular Accessory Pathways  (Yukio Sekiguchi)....Pages 283-290
 Nodofascicular/Nodoventricular Accessory Pathway  (Nitish Badhwar, Melvin M. Scheinman)....Pages 291-295
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 Outflow Tract Ventricular Tachycardias and Ventricular Premature Contractions: ECG-Based Prediction of Origin Sites  (Hitoshi Hachiya)....Pages 299-311
 Idiopathic Left Fascicular Ventricular Tachycardia  (Akihiko Nogami)....Pages 313-324
 Bundle Branch Reentrant Ventricular Tachycardia  (Mitsuhiro Nishizaki, Seiji Fukamizu, Harumizu Sakurada)....Pages 325-334
 Papillary Muscle Ventricular Tachycardia  (Hiroshi Tada)....Pages 335-340
 Ventricular Tachycardia in Non-ischemic Cardiomyopathy  (Masahiko Goya)....Pages 341-348
 Ventricular Tachycardia in Ischemic Heart Disease  (Kyoko Soejima, Akiko Ueda)....Pages 349-358
 Ablation of Brugada Syndrome  (Yasuya Inden)....Pages 359-364
 Ablation of Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia  (Keita Masuda, Takashi Kaneshiro, Kazutaka Aonuma)....Pages 365-370
 Epicardial Ablation for Ventricular Tachycardia  (Shiro Nakahara)....Pages 371-379
 Ablation of Electrical Storm  (Yoshinori Kobayashi)....Pages 381-390