
Left Ventricular Summit, An Issue of Cardiac Electrophysiology Clinics
- 1st Edition, Volume 15-1 - February 12, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Pasquale Santangeli, Fermin Carlos Garcia, Luis Casis Sáenz
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 7 2 5 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 7 2 6 - 4
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- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Foreword
- Preface
- Revisiting the Anatomy of the Left Ventricular Summit
- Key points
- Introduction
- Concept of the left ventricular summit
- Relationship with the coronary vessels
- Aortomitral continuity
- Structures surrounding the left ventricular summit
- Intracardiac echocardiography of the left ventricular summit
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Deductive Electrocardiographic Analysis of Left Ventricular Summit Arrhythmias
- Key points
- Background
- Anatomic considerations
- General electrocardiographic features
- Differential diagnosis
- Electrocardiographic predictors of successful ablation site
- Summary
- Predictors of Successful Endocardial Ablation of Epicardial Left Ventricular Summit Arrhythmias
- Key points
- Introduction
- Anatomic background
- Electrocardiographic predictors
- Mapping of left ventricular summit ventricular arrhythmias
- Predictors of successful endocardial ablation of epicardial left ventricular summit arrhythmias
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Percutaneous Epicardial Ablation of Ventricular Arrhythmias Arising from the Left Ventricular Summit
- Key points
- Background
- Mapping features and ablation outcome
- Electrocardiogram characteristics
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Catheter Ablation of Left Ventricular Summit Arrhythmias from Adjacent Anatomic Vantage Points
- Key points
- Introduction
- Anatomy
- Technique
- Limitations
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Intramyocardial Mapping of Ventricular Arrhythmias via Septal Venous Perforators: Defining the Superior Intraseptal Space
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Summary
- Funding
- Clinics care points
- Ablation of Focal Intramural Outflow Tract Ventricular Arrhythmias
- Key points
- Introduction
- Identification and significance of intramural scar
- Our approach to preprocedural evaluation, mapping, and ablation of intramural outflow tract ventricular arrhythmias
- Adjunctive treatment strategies to target intramural arrhythmias
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Bipolar Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Left Ventricular Summit Arrhythmias
- Key points
- Background
- Anatomic aspects of the left ventricular summit and variability of bipolar ablation configurations
- Bipolar ablation of the septal region of the left ventricular summit
- Bipolar ablation of the left ventricular summit utilizing coronary veins
- Bipolar ablation of the inaccessible left ventricular summit
- Combination of bipolar ablation with other emerging techniques
- Future directions
- Limitations
- Clinics care points
- Retrograde Coronary Venous Ethanol Infusion for Ablation of Refractory Left Ventricular Summit Arrhythmias
- Key points
- Why ethanol?
- History of chemical ablation for ventricular arrhythmias
- Transcoronary ethanol ablation: current role
- Retrograde coronary venous ethanol ablation
- Venous ethanol for left ventricular summit
- Defining target venules
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Sources of funding
- Fluoroless Catheter Ablation of Left Ventricular Summit Arrhythmias: A Step-by-Step Approach
- Key points
- Introduction
- Clinical outcomes
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Outcomes of Catheter Ablation of Left Ventricular Summit Arrhythmias
- Key points
- Introduction
- Anatomic considerations
- Outcomes of different approaches to the catheter ablation of left ventricular summit ventricular arrhythmia
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Preventing Complications During Mapping and Ablation of Left Ventricular Summit Arrhythmias
- Key points
- Introduction
- Anatomical considerations
- Complications
- Case study
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Supplementary data
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 15-1
- Published: February 12, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323987257
- eBook ISBN: 9780323987264
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Pasquale Santangeli
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiac Electrophysiology, University of PennsylvaniaFC
Fermin Carlos Garcia
Affiliations and expertise
Cardiac Electrophysiology
Hospital of the University of
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA.LC
Luis Casis Sáenz
Affiliations and expertise
Catedrático de Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina y Odontología de la Universidad de País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea.