Atrial Flutter: Advances in Mechanisms and Management

By: Touboul, Paul

This is the only book entirely devoted to atrial flutter. It covers a broad range of both basic and clinical topics related to atrial flutter. The book is an in depth presentation of the state-of-art of what is know about atrial flutter, from the single cell to the whole patient. The book reviews practical as well as theoretical aspects of atrial flutter. Included are discussions of the current therapeutic techniques used to treat atrial flutter. They include drugs, catheter ablation, surgery, pacing and both internal and external cardioversion. The reader with an interest in arrhythmias, in general, and atrial flutter specifically, will be well served by this book since it provides discussions of the pathologic bases, the physiologic determinants, the mechanisms in both animal and human, and the clinical aspects of atrial flutter. The reader will also discover the ideas underlying the history of the atrial flutter and be made aware of the various research directions of this field

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879936355
• ISBN13: 9780879936358
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 1.3" x 7.5"