Cardiac Electrophysiology Methods and Models, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Foreword by Tim Laske.- Section 1: Introduction.- Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: An Overview of its Evolution.- Section 2: Overview.- Basic Cardiac Electrophysiology: Excitable Membranes.- Cardiac Action Potentials, Ion Channels, and Gap Junctions.- Anatomy and Physiology Overview of the Cardiac Conduction System.- The Surface Electrocardiogram and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology.- Section 3: Disease States and Therapies.- Catheter Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias.- Cardiac Ablative Technologies.- Cardiac Anatomy Relative to Ablation Therapies.- Electroporation Ablative Therapy as a Clinical Tool: An Old Technology Revisited .- Pacing and Defibrillation.- Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy.- Section 4: Methods and Models.- Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiological Modeling.- Cardiac Monophasic Action Potentials: Endocardial, Epicardial, and Transmural Recordings.- Impact of Geometric Simplifications on Cardiac Computational Models of Electrophysiology to Assess Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy.- Cardiac Tissue Engineering: A Pathway for Repair.- Isolated Tissue Models.- The Utility of Large Mammalian Isolated Heart Models to Perform Multi-Channel Recordings and Analyses of Cardiac Rhythmicity and Conductivity In Vitro.- Probing Small Animal Models for Pathogenesis of Cardiac Arrhythmias Using Optical Mapping.- The Use of Large Animal Models for Cardiac Electrophysiology Studies.- Optical Mapping and Calcium Imaging.- Electrophysiology of Single Cardiomyocytes: Patch Clamp and Other Recording Methods.- Functional Stimulation of Cardiac Tissue and the Electrode Tissue Interface: Laboratory Tutorials and Exercises.- Engineering Principles of Lead Extraction.- Innovation in Clinical Care: Case Studies from Contemporary Cardiac Electrophysiology.