RT Book, Section
A1 Noheria, Amit
A1 Deshmukh, Abhishek J.
A1 McLeod, Christopher
A1 Asirvatham, Samuel J.
A2 Fuster, Valentin
A2 Harrington, Robert A.
A2 Narula, Jagat
A2 Eapen, Zubin J.
SR Print(0)
ID 1161719200
T1 CATHETER-ABLATIVE TECHNIQUES
T2 Hurst's The Heart, 14e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071843249
LK accesscardiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1161719200
RD 2024/12/13
AB Major  advances  have  been  made  in  the  field  of  interventional  cardiac  electrophysiology  (EP)  over  the  past  three  decades.  Catheter-based  ablation  enables  minimally  invasive  therapeutic  options  in  the  management  of  various  tachyarrhythmias.  Ablation  is  often  guided  by  EP  study  and  mapping  to  diagnose  the  arrhythmia  and  localize  the  arrhythmogenic  substrate  that  is  to  be  targeted  for  ablation.  Catheter  ablation  requires  expertise  and  constitutes  a  major  procedural  component,  in  addition  to  implantation  and  management  of  cardiac  electronic  devices,  within  the  subspecialty  of  clinical  cardiac  EP.  In  this  chapter,  we  discuss  (1)  general  technical  considerations  for  catheter  ablation,  (2)  specifics  related  to  ablation  of  different  arrhythmias,  and  (3)  potential  complications  of  ablation.