Catheter Ablation

Part I. Cardiac Anatomy for Catheter Ablation

1. Atrial and Atrioventricular Junctional Anatomy: Myocardial Orientation and Its Heterogeneity
Shin Inoue, Genyo Ogawa, Taka-Aki Matsuyama

2. Anatomy of Aorta, Pulmonary Artery, and Ventricles
Osamu Igawa

Part II. Techniques and Interpretation to Diagnose the Mechanism of Supraventricular Tachycardias

3. Entrainment Pacing: A Diagnostic Tool for Reentrant Tachycardia and Its Application for Catheter Ablation
Ken Okumura, Hideharu Okamatsu

4. Para-Hisian Pacing
Kenzo Hirao

5. Entrainment Pacing for Differential Diagnosis of Supraventricular Tachycardias
Mitsunori Maruyama

Part III. Special Sites for Ablation

6. Aortic Sinus Cusps for Catheter Ablation of Supraventricular and Ventricular Arrhythmias
Takumi Yamada

7. Coronary Sinus for Ablation of Ventricular Tachyarrhythmia and Supraventricular
Seiichiro Matsuo

8. Vein of Marshall Chemical Ablation of Atrial Tachyarrhythmias
Kaoru Okishige

Part IV. Catheter Ablation of Atrial Tachycardias and Flutter

9. Cavo-tricuspid Isthmus-Dependent Atrial Flutter
Shinsuke Miyazaki

10. Uncommon Atrial Flutter
Yasushi Miyauchi

11. Adenosine-Sensitive Atrial Tachycardia
Hiroshige Yamabe

12. Focal Atrial Tachycardia
Kazuhiro Satomi

13. Catheter Ablation of Atrial Tachycardia Following Catheter and Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
Hiroshi Nakagawa, Warren M. Jackman

Part V. Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation

14. Pulmonary Vein Isolation: Radiofrequency Energy
Teiichi Yamane

15. Pulmonary Vein Isolation: Cryoballoon Ablation
Kaoru Okishige

16. Radiofrequency HotBalloon Ablation
Hiroshi Sohara

17. Catheter Ablation of Posterior LA Isolation: Box Isolation
Koichiro Kumagai

18. Isolation of Superior Vena Cava
Koji Higuchi

19. Catheter Ablation of Non-pulmonary Vein Foci
Yoshihide Takahashi

20. Stepwise Ablation for Persistent Atrial Fibrillation
Yoshihide Takahashi

21. Substrate Ablation of Persistent AF
Takeshi Tsuchiya, Takanori Yamaguchi, Akira Fukui

22. Autonomic Ganglionated Plexi Ablation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
Hiroshi Nakagawa, Benjamin J. Scherlag, Deborah Lockwood, Warren M. Jackman

Part VI. Catheter Ablation of Atrio-ventricular Nodal Tachycardias

23. Slow Pathway Ablation for Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia
Kenichiro Otomo

24. Ablation of Superior Slow Pathway in Atypical Fast-Slow Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia
Yoshiaki Kaneko

25. Retrograde Fast Pathway Ablation in Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia
Yasuteru Yamauchi

Part VII. Catheter Ablation of Accessory Pathways

26. Free Wall Atrioventricular Accessory Pathways
Seiji Takatsuki

27. Posteroseptal Atrioventricular Accessory Pathways
Junichi Nitta

28. Catheter Ablation of Antero-septal (Supero-paraseptal) and Mid-septal (True Septal) Accessory Pathways
Takashi Kurita, Ryobun Yasuoka

29. Atriofascicular Accessory Pathways
Yukio Sekiguchi

30. Nodofascicular/Nodoventricular Accessory Pathway
Nitish Badhwar, Melvin M. Scheinman

Part VIII. Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardias

31. Outflow Tract Ventricular Tachycardias and Ventricular Premature Contractions: ECG-Based Prediction of Origin Sites
Hitoshi Hachiya

32. Idiopathic Left Fascicular Ventricular Tachycardia
Akihiko Nogami

33. Bundle Branch Reentrant Ventricular Tachycardia
Mitsuhiro Nishizaki, Seiji Fukamizu, Harumizu Sakurada

34. Papillary Muscle Ventricular Tachycardia
Hiroshi Tada

35. Ventricular Tachycardia in Non-ischemic Cardiomyopathy
Masahiko Goya

36. Ventricular Tachycardia in Ischemic Heart Disease
Kyoko Soejima, Akiko Ueda

37. Ablation of Brugada Syndrome
Yasuya Inden

38. Ablation of Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia
Keita Masuda, Takashi Kaneshiro, Kazutaka Aonuma

39. Epicardial Ablation for Ventricular Tachycardia
Shiro Nakahara

40. Ablation of Electrical Storm
Yoshinori Kobayashi

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Cardiology, Angiology