Electrocardiography in Ischemic Heart Disease: Clinical and Imaging Correlations and Prognostic Implications

The ECG is a fundamental diagnostic tool in cardiology, allowing accurate diagnosis and monitoring of acute and chronic ischemic heart disease. In this most comprehensive book of its kind, internationally renowned authors correlate electrocardiographic recordings with anatomical patterns of myocardial ischemia to improve the diagnosis and management of patients with ischemic heart disease.
The book is structured in two sections. Part One covers electrocardiographic patterns of ischemia, injury and infarction.
• Each chapter discusses a different ECG abnormality in turn, clearly explaining the ischemic insults and electrophysiological mechanisms underlying each pattern to promote rapid and accurate interpretation of the ECG in the clinical setting.
• ECG abnormalities are correlated with myocardial anatomy and coronary angiography to produce a series of practical diagnostic algorithms that allow the clinician to identify not only the occluded artery but the precise location of the occlusion within the artery, facilitating appropriate therapeutic decisions.
• The authors also propose a new classification of Q–wave myocardial infarctions based on imaging correlations with advanced techniques such as contrast–enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance.
Part Two of the book covers the ECG in clinical practice. Each chapter focuses on a different clinical syndrome, describing the role of the ECG in a global approach to the diagnosis, prognosis and risk stratification of patients with acute and chronic ischemic heart disease and guiding clinical decision–making.
Extensively referenced and illustrated throughout, this book is highly recommended for any clinician involved in the diagnosis and management of ischemic heart disease.

Spis treści:
Foreword by Günter Breihardt.
Foreword by Elliott M. Antman.
Introduction.
Part I The ECG in different clinical settings of ischaemic heart disease: correlations and prognostic.
implications.
1 Anatomy of the heart: the importance of imaging techniques correlations.
2 Electrocardiographic changes secondary to myocardial ischaemia.
3 Electrocardiographic pattern of ischaemia: T–wave abnormalities.
4 Electrocardiographic pattern of injury: ST–segment abnormalities.
5 Electrocardiographic pattern of necrosis: abnormal Q wave.
Part II The ECG in different clinical settings of ischaemic heart disease: correlations and prognostic implications.
6 Acute and chronic ischaemic heart disease: definition of concepts and classification.
7 Patients with acute chest pain: role of the ECG and its correlations.
8 Acute coronary syndrome: unstable angina and acute myocardial infarction.
9 Myocardial infarction with Q wave.
10 Myocardial infarction without Q waves or equivalent: acute and chronic phase.
11 Clinical settings with anginal pain, outside the ACS.
12 Silent ischaemia.
13 Usefulness and limitations of the ECG in chronic ischaemic heart disease.
14 The ECG as a predictor of ischaemic heart disease.
References.
Index.
Colour plate, facing page 12

Nota biograficzna:
A. Bayés de Luna, MD, FESC, FACC
Prof. Antonio Bayés is a Professor of Cardiology in the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, and Director of the Institut Catala Cardiologia–Hospital Sant Pau. He was trained as a cardiologist in the School of Cardiology of the University of Barcelona, and the Institute of Cardiology and Hammersmith Hospital in London. He has served as President of the Catalan Society of Cardiology; President of the Spanish Society of Cardiology; President of the Catalan Foundation of Cardiology (ACARD); Vice–President of the Spanish Foundation of Cardiology; and President of the World Heart Federation. He has established different projects devoted to the fight against cardiovascular diseases, especially in develop ing countries such as “The twin centres program”, “The white book in world cardiology” and the yearly “World Heart Day”. He is President of the International Society for Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy (ISCP).
M. Fiol–Sala, MD
Chief of the Intensive Coronary Care Unit
Intensive Coronary Care Unit
Hospital Son Dureta
Palma
Mallorca
Spain

Okładka tylna:
The ECG is a fundamental diagnostic tool in cardiology, allowing accurate diagnosis and monitoring of acute and chronic ischemic heart disease. In this most comprehensive book of its kind, internationally renowned authors correlate electrocardiographic recordings with anatomical patterns of myocardial ischemia to improve the diagnosis and management of patients with ischemic heart disease.
The book is structured in two sections. Part One covers electrocardiographic patterns of ischemia, injury and infarction.
• Each chapter discusses a different ECG abnormality in turn, clearly explaining the ischemic insults and electrophysiological mechanisms underlying each pattern to promote rapid and accurate interpretation of the ECG in the clinical setting.
• ECG abnormalities are correlated with myocardial anatomy and coronary angiography to produce a series of practical diagnostic algorithms that allow the clinician to identify not only the occluded artery but the precise location of the occlusion within the artery, facilitating appropriate therapeutic decisions.
• The authors also propose a new classification of Q–wave myocardial infarctions based on imaging correlations with advanced techniques such as contrast–enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance.
Part Two of the book covers the ECG in clinical practice. Each chapter focuses on a different clinical syndrome, describing the role of the ECG in a global approach to the diagnosis, prognosis and risk stratification of patients with acute and chr onic ischemic heart disease and guiding clinical decision–making.
Extensively referenced and illustrated throughout, this book is highly recommended for any clinician involved in the diagnosis and management of ischemic heart disease.