Mastering Supraventricular Tachycardia Diagnostics in the Electrophysiology Lab
- 1st Edition - July 8, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Konstantinos P. Letsas, Ourania Kariki
- Language: English
Mastering Supraventricular Tachycardia Diagnostics in the Electrophysiology Lab provides a comprehensive, practical, and systematically organized guide to diagnostic pacing maneuv… Read more
Description
Description
Emerging from the need to provide a complete collection of literature on diagnostic pacing maneuvers published over the last 40 years, this book includes more than 30 diagnostic pacing maneuvers, with detailed instructions on when and how to perform them, how to interpret the findings, and how to recognize their potential pitfalls.
This book aspires to serve as a thorough and comprehensive guide, structured both as a benchside reference companion for the electrophysiology lab and as an educational resource for cardiac electrophysiology fellows newly introduced to the fascinating yet challenging world of invasive cardiac electrophysiology.
Key features
Key features
- Offers an introduction to the fundamental concepts of cardiac electrophysiology
- Offers more than 30 diagnostic pacing maneuvers, with detailed instructions on when and how to perform them, how to interpret the findings, and how to recognize their potential pitfalls
- Offers step-by-step algorithms for the diagnosis of narrow and wide complex tachycardias
- Offers a collection of clinical cases illustrating their application in both everyday practice and challenging scenarios
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
CHAPTER 1 An overview of supraventricular tachycardias
Konstantinos P. Letsas, Antonio Frontera, Marco Carbonaro, Matteo Baroni, Patrizio Mazzone and Michael Efremidis
CHAPTER 2 The fundamental concepts of resetting and entrainment
Konstantinos P. Letsas, Panagiotis Mililis and Michael Efremidis
Section II Differential diagnosis of SVT in the EP lab
CHAPTER 3 Observations during sinus rhythm and during pacing before tachycardia induction
Ourania K. Kariki and Konstantinos P. Letsas
CHAPTER 4 Observations during tachycardia
Ourania K. Kariki and Konstantinos P. Letsas
CHAPTER 5 Pacing maneuvers during tachycardia
Ourania K. Kariki and Konstantinos P. Letsas
CHAPTER 6 Pacing maneuvers during sinus rhythm
Ourania K. Kariki and Konstantinos P. Letsas
CHAPTER 7 Pacing maneuvers and nodoventricular/nodofascicular pathways
Ourania K. Kariki and Michael Efremidis
Section III Step by step diagnostic algorithms
CHAPTER 8 Diagnostic approach of a regular narrow QRS complex tachycardia
Ourania K. Kariki, Athanasios Saplaouras and Stylianos Dragasis
CHAPTER 9 Diagnostic approach of a regular wide complex tachycardia
Ourania K. Kariki, Stavroula Koskina and Panagiotis Mililis
Section IV Clinical cases
CHAPTER 10 Clinical case 1: Wide to narrow QRS complex tachycardia: what is the mechanism?
Oguzhan Ekrem Turan, Resit Yigit Yilancioglu and Emin Evren Ozcan
CHAPTER 11 Clinical case 2: interpreting atrial activation during a critical maneuver
Oguzhan Ekrem Turan, Resit Yigit Yilancioglu and Emin Evren Ozcan
CHAPTER 12 Clinical case 3: concealed slow-conducting oblique left accessory pathway: when coronary sinus activation misleads
Cheryl Teres and Patrizio Pascale
CHAPTER 13 Clinical case 4: atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia or junctional ectopic tachycardia?
Konstantinos P. Letsas, Ourania K. Kariki, Stylianos Dragasis, Athanasios Saplaouras and Michael Efremidis
CHAPTER 14 Clinical case 5: when maximal preexcitation does not help
Enrico Crispino, Freddy Rainier Graterol, Anna Victor, Elvihots Yorddy Alberto Ayauja, José M. Tolosana and Andreu Porta-Sánchez
CHAPTER 15 Clinical case 6: A wide-QRS complex tachycardia: what is the mechanism?
Augusto Meretta and Marta de Riva
CHAPTER 16 Clinical case 7: Narrow QRS complex tachycardia: What is the mechanism?
Dimitrios Asvestas and Stylianos Tzeis
CHAPTER 17 Clinical case 8: asymptomatic preexcitation: should we ablate?
Dimitrios Asvestas, Ourania K. Kariki, Stavroula Koskina, Konstantinos P. Letsas and Michael Efremidis
CHAPTER 18 Clinical case 9: impact of prior coronary sinus ablation on the diagnosis of narrow complex tachycardia
Ourania K. Kariki, Stylianos Dragasis, Panagiotis Mililis, Athanasios Saplaouras, Konstantinos P. Letsas and Michael Efremidis
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: July 9, 2026
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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Konstantinos P. Letsas
Konstantinos Letsas MD, PhD, FESC, FEHRA received his medical degree in 1997, finishing his doctoral thesis at the Medical University of Ioannina in 2003. He completed his residency in Cardiology at Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens (where he later served as a consultant cardiologist/electrophysiologist). He pursued an advanced fellowship training program with the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) in Invasive Cardiac Electrophysiology at the Herzzentrum, Bad Krozingen (Germany). He is accredited by the EHRA in Invasive Cardiac Electrophysiology. Currently, he is Deputy Director of the Arrhythmia Unit at Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, where he focuses on catheter ablation of complex arrhythmias (specifically, catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation and sudden cardiac death in the young). Dr. Letsas is a member of the EHRA Certification Committee for Invasive Cardiac Electrophysiology, the president-elect of the Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology group of the Hellenic Society of Cardiology, and has published over 270 peer-reviewed articles.
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Ourania Kariki
Dr. Ourania Kariki graduated from the Medical School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2016 and completed her cardiology training, followed by a two-year fellowship in Invasive Cardiac Electrophysiology at Onassis Hospital in Athens. She currently serves as a consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist at Onassis Hospital. Dr. Kariki holds a Master’s degree and is a PhD candidate at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School. In 2025, she obtained full EHRA certification in Invasive Cardiac Electrophysiology. Her primary clinical and research interests include the diagnostics of supraventricular tachycardias and the application of novel technologies in catheter ablation of arrhythmias.