Topics:
Arrhythmias
22/03/2003 00:00:00
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Authors
C. Blomström-Lundqvist FESC and M. M. Scheinman (Chairpersons), E. Aliot FESC, J. S. Alpert FESC, H. Calkins, A. J. Camm FESC, W. B. Campbell, D. E. Haines, K. H. Kuck FESC, B. B. Lerman, D. D. Miller, C. W.Shaeffer Jr., W. G. Stevenson, G. F. Tomaselli
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Table of contents: Full Text (ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines)
Introduction
- Organization of Committee and Evidence Review, Contents of These Guidelines—Scope
Public Health Considerations and Epidemiology
General Mechanisms of Supraventricular Arrhythmia
- Specialized Atrial Tissue, General Mechanisms
Clinical Presentation, General Evaluation, and Management of Patients With Supraventricular Arrhythmia
- General Evaluation of Patients Without Documented
- Arrhythmia
- Clinical History and Physical Examination
- Diagnostic Investigations
- Management
- General Evaluation of Patients With Documented Arrhythmia
- Diagnostic Evaluation
- Management
Specific Arrhythmias
- Sinus Tachyarrhythmias:
- Physiological Sinus Tachycardia
- Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia
- Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome
- Sinus Node Re-entry Tachycardia
- Atrioventricular Nodal Reciprocating Tachycardia:
- Definitions and Clinical Features
- Acute Treatment
- Long-Term Pharmacologic Therapy
- Catheter Ablation
- Focal and Nonparoxysmal Junctional Tachycardia:
- Focal Junctional Tachycardia
- Nonparoxysmal Junctional Tachycardia
- Atrioventricular Reciprocating Tachycardia (Extra Nodal Accessory Pathways):
- Sudden Death in WPW Syndrome and Risk Stratification
- Acute Treatment
- Long-Term Pharmacologic Therapy
- Catheter Ablation
- Management of Patients With Asymptomatic Accessory Pathways
- Summary of Management
- Focal Atrial Tachycardias:
- Definition and Clinical Presentation
- Diagnosis
- Site of Origin and Mechanisms
- Treatment
- Multifocal Atrial Tachycardia
- Macro–Re-entrant Atrial Tachycardia:
- Isthmus-Dependent Atrial Flutter
- Non–Cavotricuspid Isthmus-Dependent Atrial Flutter
Special Circumstances
- Pregnancy:
- Acute Conversion of Atrioventricular Node–Dependent Tachycardias
- Prophylactic Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy
- Supraventricular Tachycardias in Adult Patients With Congenital Heart Disease:
- Introduction
- Specific Disorders
- Drug-Drug and Drug-Metabolic Interactions
- Quality-of-Life and Cost Considerations
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