Excitation and Neural Control of the Heart

This book describes the movements of ions across the cardiac cell membranes, and examines the roles of such ion fluxes in the genesis of automaticity and in excitation-contraction coupling, This understanding is applied to the problem of the genesis of cardiac arrhythmias. Chapters on the development of reentrant circuits, on the effects of myocardial ischemia, and on the relation of repolarization to arrhythmia vulnerability relate the practical applicability of such fundamental knowledge to the relevant clinical field.