Pacing to Support the Failing Heart
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Author(s): K. A. Ellenbogen and A. Auricchio (Eds)
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 9781405175340
Format: hardback
347pp
Price: £62.99
Review Date: 12 January 2009
Review: Over the last 50 years pacing has been regarded as the only non-pharmacological therapy for many life-threatening bradycardias and tachycardias. Currently a new conceptual phase is coming into use; this involves the application of an electrically based therapy, cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), which brings new opportunities for potential mechanisms, diagnostic capabilities and treatments. This volume, by experts in their field, reflects on the causes and damage related to dyssynchronopathy, the new pathophysiological entity that is related to spontaneous and pacing-induced mechanical abnormalities that cause heart failure. There are reports of the latest clinical trials, descriptions of the most recent diagnostic non-invasive tools, and some practical proposals for the treatment of heart failure patients. In particular, there are helpful individual chapters on: Implanting, Programming and Troubleshooting CRT devices.