Risk of Arrhythmia and Sudden Death

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Part I: Problem and Methodology.

1. Clinical Goals of Risk Stratification.

2. Definition of Arrhythmic Risk.

3. Statistical Methods for Risk-Stratification Studies.

4. Step-wise Risk-Stratification Strategies.

5. Risk-stratification Studies for Prospective Trial Design.

Part II: Techniques of Risk-Assessment.

6. Basic Clinical Assessment.

7. Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction and Wall Motion Score.

8. Risk Assessment: The 12 Lead Electrocardiogram.

9. Electrophysiological Study for Risk Stratification of Cardiac Patients.

10. QT Dispersion.

11. Electrocardiographic Assessment of Myocardial Ischaemia.

12. Exercise Electrocardiography for the Assessment of Arrhythmias.

13. Analysis of Monophasic Action Potentials.

14. Ventricular Signal Averaged Electrocardiography.

15. Signal Averaged P Wave.

16. Non-invasive Investigation of Wedensky Modulation.

17. Ambulatory Electrocardiography: Use in Arrhythmia Risk Assessment.

18. Even Loop Recorders and Implantable Monitors.

19. Basic Autonomic Tests.

20. Heart Rate Assessments and Monitoring.

21. Heart Rate Variability.

22. Baroflex Sensitivity.

23. Heart-Rate Turbulence.

24. T-wave Dynamicity.

25. Repolarisation Alternans.

26. Social and Psychosocial Influences on Sudden Cardiac Death, Ventricular Arrhythmia and Cardiac Autonomic Function.

Part III: Clinical Studies of Risk Assessment.

27. Risk Stratification after Myocardial Infarction.

28. Ventricular Arrhythmias in Chronic Heart Failure.

29. Ventricular Arrhythmias in Hypertrophic Cariomyopathy.

30. Ventricular Arrhythmias in Apparently Healthy Athletes.

31. Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation.

32. Persistent Atrial Fibrillation.

33. Permanent Atrial Fibrillation.

34. Arrhythmias Associated with the Long QT Syndrome.

35. Arrhythmia Associated with Other Cardiac Diseases.

36. Arrhythmias Associated with Non-Cardiac Disease.

Part IV: Antiarrhythmic Trials.

37. Anti-arrhythmic Device Trials.

38. Recent Antiarrhythmatic Drug Trials.

Index.