Basic Cardiac Electrophysiology for the Clinician

Acknowledgments, vii Foreword to the Second Edition by Douglas P. Zipes, ix Foreword to the First Edition by Douglas P. Zipes, xi Introduction, 1 Chapter 1 Bioelectricity, 7 Chapter 2 Ion Channels, 43 Chapter 3 Ion Channel Regulation, 72 Chapter 4 Impulse Initiation and Propagation in Cardiac Muscle, 92 Chapter 5 Rate Dependency of Discontinuous Propagation, 121 Chapter 6 Basic Mechanisms of Cardiac Arrhythmias, 152 Chapter 7 Rotors, Spirals, and Scroll Waves in the Heart, 191 Chapter 8 Rotors and the Mechanisms of Atrial Fibrillation, 224 Chapter 9 Molecular Mechanisms of Ventricular Fibrillation, 254 Chapter 10 Inheritable Arrhythmogenic Diseases, 276 Bibliography, 316 Index, 335