Clinical Electrocardiography

About the AuthorsAntoni Bayés de Luna is Emeritus Professor of Cardiology, Autonomous University of Barcelona. Senior Investigator, Research Institute Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, IIB-Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain. Miquel Fiol-Sala is Scientific Director of the Health Research Institute of the Balearic Islands. Former Director of the Coronary Care Unit, Son Espases University Hospital. Associate professor at the University of the Balearic Islands. Spain Antoni Bayés-Genís is Head of the Heart Institute, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona; Full professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Adrián Baranchuk is Professor of Medicine at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and serves as President Elect of the Interamerican Society of Cardiology (SIAC)

• Preface by Prof. Antoni Bayés de Luna viiPreface by Drs Miquel Fiol‐Sala, Antoni Bayes‐Genís, and Adrián Baranchuk viiiForeword by Dr Marcelo V. Elizari ixForeword by Dr Pedro Brugada xiRecommended Reading xiiiPart 1 Introductory Aspects1 The Electrical Activity of the Heart 32 The History of Electrocardiography 113 Utility and Limitations of the Surface ECG: Present and Future 17Part 2 The Normal ECG4 The Anatomical Basis of the ECG: From Macroscopic Anatomy to Ultrastructural Characteristics 255 The Electrophysiological Basis of the ECG: From Cell Electrophysiology to the Human ECG 356 The ECG Recording: Leads, Devices, and Techniques 567 Characteristics of the Normal Electrocardiogram: Normal ECG Waves and Intervals 698 Diagnostic Criteria: Sensitivity, Specificity, and Predictive Value 100Part 3 Abnormal ECG Patterns9 Atrial Abnormalities 10710 Ventricular Enlargement 13311 Ventricular Blocks 17012 Ventricular Pre‐excitation 21513 Ischemia and Necrosis 229 Part 4 Arrhythmias14 Mechanisms, Classification, and Clinical Aspects of Arrhythmias 29915 Active Supraventricular Arrhythmias 32116 Active Ventricular Arrhythmias 35017 Passive Arrhythmias 37618 Diagnosis of Arrhythmias in Clinical Practice: A Step‐by‐Step Approach 396Part 5 The Clinical Usefulness of Electrocardiography19 The Diagnostic Value of Electrocardiographic Abnormalities 41120 The ECG in Different Clinical Set of Ischemic Heart Disease 42721 Inherited Heart Diseases 47822 The ECG in Other Heart Diseases 49823 The ECG in Other Diseases and Different Situations 52024 Other ECG Patterns of Risk 53925 Limitations of the Conventional ECG: Utility of Other Techniques 55226 The Electrocardiology of the Twenty‐First Century 571Index 574