Huang’s Catheter Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias, 5th Edition

By: Shoei K. Stephen Huang, MD, FHRS, FACC, FAHA; Jason S. Bradfield, MD, FHRS; Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD

ISBN: 9780323931106

Publication Date: July 24, 2024

Reviewer: Josue Villegas-Galaviz, MD (East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine)

Description

This book review is co-authored by Manar H. Jbara, MD, and Vijay K. Ramu, MD. This book is the fifth edition of a multi-authored reference book on catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias.

Purpose

The editors and authors aim to provide a comprehensive resource of information regarding the complexity of cardiac arrhythmias and their treatment through catheter ablation.

Audience

The intended audience of this book includes cardiology fellows, electrophysiology trainees, practicing clinicians, other healthcare providers, or any professional interested in cardiac mapping and ablation technologies.

The editors and authors are internationally recognized experts in their field.

Features

The book is divided into eight parts; each part includes multiple chapters. Part one describes the fundamental concepts, biophysics, and clinical applications of the most common methods of transcatheter energy delivery for cardiac arrhythmia ablation including cryoablation, laser ablation, pulsed field ablation, and irrigated radiofrequency catheter ablation. Part two focuses on cardiac mapping and imaging as these relate to cardiac arrhythmias. This part starts with a chapter dedicated to cardiac anatomy with a focus on the heart’s conduction system and chapters that describe the fundamentals of intracardiac mapping and the most common cardiac mapping techniques such as substrate mapping, activation mapping, pace mapping, and entrainment mapping. Then part two continues with chapters dedicated to the description of fundamentals of catheter three-dimensional mapping systems and high-resolution three-dimensional mapping systems, and finishes with the description of intracardiac echocardiography, computer cardiac tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging for guiding mapping ablation. Parts three to seven contain several chapters arranged in an order in which a chapter is dedicated to a specific arrhythmia’s anatomic, pathophysiology, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, mapping, ablation, and troubleshooting of difficult cases of this specific cardiac arrhythmia; then is followed by chapters dedicated to a specific ablation technique for the previously covered arrhythmia. Chapters that cover a particular ablation technique describe preprocedural, procedural, and postprocedural considerations and complications, and at the end of these chapters, they also describe difficult cases for each specific ablation technique. The book covers trial and ventricular arrhythmias, as well as the most common ablation procedures in an organized fashion. Part eight is dedicated to miscellaneous topics, such as complications associated with catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias, atrial transseptal catheterization, and arrhythmias in the pediatric population. The book is well formatted, and each chapter starts with a key points section, followed by descriptive text with embedded citations, and ends with references. Each chapter includes several illustrative figures and tablets, and most chapters have explanatory videos which can be observed in the online version of the book, access to which is granted with the physical textbook. The information provided is based on cutting-edge research and the clinical expertise of experts in the field of catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias.

Assessment

The book is a comprehensive source of updated fundamental and clinically useful information for the cardiac mapping and ablation of cardiac arrhythmias and is a valuable tool for cardiology fellows, electrophysiology trainees, practicing clinicians, other healthcare providers, or any professional interested in cardiac mapping and ablation technologies. The editors and authors have met their objectives.

©Doody’s Review Service, 2024, Josue Villegas-Galaviz, MD (East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine), Doody’s Score: 100 – 5 Stars!

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