New Arrhythmia Technologies -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Part I: Advances in antiarrhythmic pharmacologic therapy -- 1 New antiarrhythmic pharmacologic therapies and regulatory issues in antiarrhythmic drug development -- 2 New frontiers in antithrombotic therapy for atrial fibrillation -- Part II: Future of antiarrhythmic therapy -- 3 Principles of pharmacogenomics: Focus on arrhythmias -- 4 The cardiac sodium-channel carboxy terminus: predicted and detected structure provide a novel target for antiarrhythmic drugs development -- 5 Embryonic stem-cell-derived cardiomyocytes as a model for arrhythmia -- 6 Gene and cell therapy for sinus and AV nodal dysfunction -- 7 Gene therapy for cardiac tachyarrhythmias -- Part III: Monitoring, noninvasive mapping, risk assessment, and external defibrillation -- 8 New developments in noninvasive rhythm monitoring, implantable hemodynamic monitoring, functional status monitoring and noninvasive mapping -- 9 Techniques of prediction of arrhythmia occurrence and stratification for sudden cardiac death -- 10 Beta-blocker efficacy in long-QT syndrome patients with mutations in the pore and nonpore regions of the hERG potassiumchannel gene -- 11 New developments in out-of-hospital cardiac defibrillation: evaluation of AED strategies -- Part IV: Advances in pacing -- 12 Sensor and sensor integration -- 13 New electrode and lead designs for pacemakers -- 14 Current concepts in intravascular pacemaker and defibrillator lead extraction -- 15 Left ventricular epicardial lead implantation: Anatomy, techniques, and tools -- 16 New resynchronization lead systems and devices -- 17 New indications for pacing -- Part V: Advances in implantable defibrillators -- 18 Implantable defibrillator sensing and discrimination algorithms -- 19 Arrhythmia prevention and termination algorithms.

20 New lead designs and lead-less systems -- 21 Optimization of defibrillation function -- 22 Remote web-based device monitoring -- 23 New ICD indications -- Part VI: Advances in catheter surgical ablation -- 24 Advances in surgical ablation devices for atrial fibrillation -- 25 Epicardial access: present and future applications for interventional electrophysiologists -- 26 Advances in catheter control devices -- 27 Advances in energy sources in catheter ablation -- 28 New ablation paradigms: Anatomic ablation of complex arrhythmia substrates -- Index.