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Contents
Foreword
7
Kim M Fox
Consultant Cardiologist, and Head, Heart Division, Royal Brompton Hospital, and
Professor of Clinical Cardiology, Imperial College London
Imaging
Contrast-enhanced Multislice Computed Tomography of the Heart 8
Lukas Lehmkuhl,
1
Matthias Grothoff,
1
Stefan Nitzsche,
1
Borek Foldyna,
1
Holger Thiele
2
and Matthias Gutberlet
1
1. Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology;
2. Clinic for Internal Medicine/Cardiology, University of Leipzig Heart Centre
Congenital Anomalies of the Coronary Arteries 12
Peiman Jamshidi and Paul Erne
Division of Cardiology, Luzerner Kantonsspital Luzern, Lucerne
Myocardial Metabolic Imaging in the Clinical Setting 15
Nagara Tamaki,
1
Yuji Kuge
2
and Keiichiro Yoshinaga
3
1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo;
2. Radioisotope Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo; 3. Department of Molecular Imaging,
Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo
Radionuclide Imaging for Assessment of Patients with Atrial Fibrillation 20
Todd D Miller and J Wells Askew
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester
Arrhythmia Management
Perspectives on ATHENA – Cardiovascular Outcomes versus Symptoms –
Atrial Fibrillation 24
HJGM Crijns
Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Maastricht
The Future of European Electrophysiology – How to Improve the Quality of Care in Europe 27
Jose L Merino
Director, Arrhythmia–Electrophysiology Research Unit, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid
The Evolution of Lead Extraction 32
Melanie Maytin
1
and Laurence M Epstein
2
1. Clinical Electrophysiology Fellow; 2. Chief, Arrhythmia Service, and Director,
Electrophysiology Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
The Place of Antiarrhythmic Drugs and Rhythm Control in the Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation 36
Philippe Chevalier
Chief, Cardiac Electrophysiology, Hôpital Louis Pradel, Lyon
Atrial Fibrillation in Heart Failure Patients 41
Michalis Efremidis and Loukas Pappas
Second Department of Cardiology, ‘Evangelismos’ General Hospital, Athens
4 EUROPEAN CARDIOLOGY
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