Book Description

Ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death are responsible forhundreds of thousands of deaths each year throughout the world.Covering the most recent developments in this field, this leadingtext serves as a guide to this area of increasing clinicalimportance, addressing a wide range of topics, including: basic mechanisms of ventricular tachycardia and ventricularfibrillation clinical syndromes and etiologies epidemiology and risk stratification pharmacologic therapy ablation and surgery implantable defibrillators Ventricular Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death providesthe information that cardiologists, cardiac electrophysiologists,cardiac electrophysiology fellows, scientists, industry, andassociated professionals need to know about current and evolvingVentricular Tachyarrhythmia treatment and diagnosis. As the mostcomprehensive book on this topic, it will serve as the text thatthis readership will turn to first.