ECG HANDBOOK OF CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES

A state-of-the-art reference on contemporary and challenging issues in electrocardiography. Amazingly, over a century after the first use of the electrocardiogram, new ECG patterns are being discovered. And in the last few decades, several new electrocardiographic phenomena and markers have emerged that are challenging to physicians and allied professionals who read and interpret ECGs such as early repolarization, ECGs of athletes, Brugada Syndrome, short and long QT syndrome, various channelopathies, and cardiomyopathies. Internationally recognized experts discuss the most recent evidence-based information on these new observations, complemented with detailed ECG tracings, to provide essential guidance for the optimal interpretation of ECGs in the 21st century.

Authors
Mohammad Shenasa, MD, FACC, FHRS, FAHA, FESC
Attending Physician, Department of Cardiovascular Services, O’Conner Hospital; Heart & Rhythm Medical Group, San Jose, California.

Mark E. Josephson, MD, FACC, FHRS, FAHA
Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine Division; Director, Harvard-Thorndike Electrophysiology Institute and Arrhythmia Service, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Herman C. Dana Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

N.A. Mark Estes III, MD, FACC, FHRS, FAHA, FESC
Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine; Director, New England Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1.Normal Electrocardiograms Today
2.ECG Manifestations of Concealed Conduction
3.P-Wave Indices and the PR Interval—Relation to Atrial Fibrillation and Mortality
4.The Athlete’s Electrocardiogram
5.Electrocardiographic Markers of Arrhythmic Risk and Sudden Cardiac Death in Pediatric and Adolescent Patients
6. Electrocardiographic Markers of Sudden Cardiac Death in Different Substrates
7.Electrocardiographic Markers of Arrhythmic Events and Sudden Death in Channelopathies
8. Early Repolarization Syndrome: Its Relationship to ECG Findings and Risk stratification
9.Diagnostic Electrocardiographic Criteria of Early Repolarization and Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation
10.Prevalence and Significance of Early Repolarization (a.k.a. Haïssaguerre or J-Wave Pattern/Syndrome)
11.T-Wave Alternans: Electrocardiographic Characteristics and Clinical Value
12.Electrocardiographic Markers of Phase 3 and Phase 4 Atrioventricular Block and Progression to Complete Heart Block
13.Myocardial Infarction in the Presence of Left Bundle Branch Block or Right Ventricular Pacing
14.T-Wave Memory
15.Electrocardiographic Markers of Progressive Cardiac Conduction Disease
16.Sex and Ethnicity-Related Differences in Electrocardiography
17.Electrocardiograms in Biventricular Pacing
18.Effect of Cardiac and Noncardiac Drugs on Electrocardiograms:Electrocardiographic Markers of Drug-Induced Proarrhythmias (QT Prolongation, TdP, and Ventricular Arrhythmias)