The Practice of Catheter Cryoablation for Cardiac Arrhythmias, Enhanced Edition

List of Contributors, vi
Preface, viii
Acknowledgments, ix
About the Companion Website, x
1 Biophysical Principles and Properties of Cryoablation, 1
Jo Jo Hai and Hung-Fat Tse
2 Catheter Cryoablation for Pediatric Arrhythmias, 8
Kathryn K. Collins and George F. Van Hare
3 Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia: What Have WeLearned from Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation?, 18
Ruey J. Sung, Charlie Young, and Michael R. Lauer
4 Catheter Cryoablation for Atrioventricular Nodal ReentrantTachycardia, 36
Ngai-Yin Chan
5 Cryoballoon Pulmonary Vein Isolation for Atrial Fibrillation,47
Jürgen Vogt
6 Prevention of Phrenic Nerve Palsy during Cryoballoon Ablationfor Atrial Fibrillation, 67
Marcin Kowalski
7 Linear Isthmus Ablation for Atrial Flutter: CatheterCryoablation versus Radiofrequency
Catheter Ablation, 82
Gregory K. Feld and Navinder Sawhney
8 Catheter Cryoablation for the Treatment of Accessory Pathways,99
Ngai-Yin Chan
9 Catheter Cryoablation for the Treatment of VentricularArrhythmias, 113
Luigi Di Biase, Xue Yan, Pasquale Santangeli, Amin Al-Ahmad,Henry H. Hsia, David J. Burkhardt, and Andrea Natale
10 Catheter Cryoablation for the Treatment of MiscellaneousArrhythmias, 120
Ngai-Yin Chan
Index, 131