Atrial Fibrillation: Mechanisms and Management - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0881678317 ISBN 13: 9780881678314

Publisher: Raven Pr, 1991

Synopsis

This comprehensive volume offers clinicians guidance on the management of atrial fibrillation, the commonest sustained disturbance of cardiac rhythm faced by physicians. Drs. Falk and Podrid have selected 21 of the world's foremost experts to discuss all aspects of this arrhythmia, from basic cellular electrophysiology, pathology, and epidemiology to the complex clinical decision involved in patient care. The contributors describe pharmacological, electrophysiological, and surgical therapies and address, in detail, the concerns most frequently arising in clinical practice - such as atrial fibrillation in the absence of overt cardiac disease, the efficacy and risks of antiarrhythmic therapy, control of the ventricular rate, proarrhythmic therapy, control of the ventricular rate, proarrhythmic responses to antiarrhythmic drugs, indications for anticoagulation therapy, and the management of refractory cases by surgery or ablation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Raven Pr
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0881678317
• ISBN 13: 9780881678314
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 428
• Editor: Falk Rodney H. M.D., Podrid Philip J. M.D.