Interatrial Block and Supraventricular Arrhythmias: Clinical Implications of Bayes’ Syndrome

239 Pages·2017·6.9 MB·English

by  Adrian Baranchuk (ed.)

INTERATRIAL BLOCK AND
SUPRAVENTRICULAR
ARRHYTHMIAS: CLINICAL
IMPLICATIONS OF BAYÉS’
SYNDROME
INTERATRIAL BLOCK AND
SUPRAVENTRICULAR
ARRHYTHMIAS: CLINICAL
IMPLICATIONS OF BAYÉS’
SYNDROME
Adrian Baranchuk, MD, FACC, FRCPC, FCCS
Professor of Medicine (Tenure)
Head, Heart Rhythm Service
Queen’s University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
© 2017 Adrian Baranchuk
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Contents
About the Authors
Forewords
Eugene Braunwald, MD
Dr. Wojciech Zareba, MD, PhD
Preface
Chapter 1 The Long Journey to the Diagnosis of Interatrial Blocks: ECG-VCG Criteria
Definitions and Methods for Diagnosis
Antoni Bayés de Luna and Adrian Baranchuk
Chapter 2 Normal Atrial Electrical Activity
Pyotr G. Platonov
Chapter 3 Structure of the Bachmann’s Bundle
José Angel Cabrera and Damián Sánchez-Quintana
Chapter 4 Pathophysiology of the Interatrial Blocks
Chain of Events to Explain the ECG Pattern of Interatrial Block and Its Association
with Atrial Fibrillation, Stroke, and Cognitive Impairment
Antoni Bayés de Luna, Albert Massó van-Roessel, and Luis Alberto Escobar
Robledo
Chapter 5 Contributions of Noncontact Mapping to the Understanding of Normal Atrial
Activation
Colin Yeo, Robert Lemery, and Martin Green
Chapter 6 Contributions of Noncontact and Contact Mapping to the Understanding of
Interatrial Block
Benedict M. Glover
Chapter 7 Epidemiology of Interatrial Block
Shreyas Gowdar, Lovely Chhabra, and David H. Spodick
Chapter 8 Consensus Document on Interatrial Blocks: 2016 Update
Antoni Bayés de Luna, Iwona Cygankiewicz, Javier García-Niebla, and Francisco
G. Cosío
Chapter 9 Interatrial Block and Supraventricular Arrhythmias: Bayés’ Syndrome
Diego Conde and Adrian Baranchuk
Chapter 10Correlation of Interatrial Block with Left Atrial Enlargement and P-Wave
Terminal Force
Larisa G. Tereshchenko
Chapter 11Interatrial Block and Stroke
Arun Gautam, Lovely Chhabra, and David H. Spodick
Chapter 12Interatrial Block as a Predictor of Atrial Fibrillation
Andres Enriquez and Diego Conde
Chapter 13Interatrial Block as a Predictor of Post-CABG Atrial Fibrillation
Erik M. van Oosten and Adrian Baranchuk
Chapter 14Interatrial Block in Octogenarians and Up
Manuel Martínez-Sellés and Antoni Bayés de Luna
Chapter 15Interatrial Block in Hemodialysis Patients
Marco Marano
Chapter 16Interatrial Block in Severe Heart Failure and the Impact of Cardiac
Resynchronization Therapy
Fariha Sadiq Ali, Roger Villuendas, and Antoni Bayés-Genís
Chapter 17Interatrial Block in Patients with Sleep Apnea and the Impact of CPAP
Adrian Baranchuk and Benedict Glover
Chapter 18Progressive Interatrial Block
Bryce Alexander and Adrian Baranchuk
Chapter 19Atrial Resynchronization by Biatrial Pacing: Is This a Solution?
Jean-Claude Daubert, Raphaël Martins, and Philippe Mabo
Chapter 20The Future (and Challenge) of Treating Interatrial Block in the 21st Century
Ignacio Fernández-Lozano, Diego Jiménez Sánchez, Eusebio García Izquierdo,
and Antoni Bayés de Luna
Index
About the Authors
Editor
Adrian Baranchuk, MD, FACC, FRCPC, FCCS
Professor of Medicine (Tenure), Head, Heart Rhythm Service, Queen’s
University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Contributors
Bryce Alexander, BSc
Division of Cardiology, Kingston General Hospital, Queen’s University,
Kingston, Ontario, Canada Antoni Bayés de Luna, MD, PhD
Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Cardiovascular Research Center, CSIC-
ICCC, Barcelona, Spain Antoni Bayés-Genís, MD
Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona,
Barcelona, Spain José Angel Cabrera, MD
Hospital Universitario Quirón-Madrid, European University of Madrid, Madrid,
Spain Lovely Chhabra, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heartland Regional Medical Center,
Marion, Illinois, United States Diego Conde, MD
Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Francisco
G. Cosío, MD
Cardiology Department, Hospital Universitario de Getafe, Madrid;
Cardiology Department, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Iwona
Cygankiewicz, MD, PhD
Department of Electrocardiology, Medical University of Lodz, Sterling Regional
Center for Heart Diseases, Lodz, Poland Jean-Claude Daubert, MD
Faculté de Médecine, Université Rennes 1, Rennes, France Andres Enriquez,
MD
Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Hospital of the University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Luis Alberto Escobar
Robledo, MD
Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Cardiovascular Research Center, CSIC-
ICCC, Barcelona, Spain Ignacio Fernández-Lozano, MD
Hospital Puerta de Hierro, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain Eusebio García
Izquierdo, MD
Hospital Puerta de Hierro, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain Javier García-Niebla,
RN
Servicios Sanitarios del Area de Salud de El Hierro, Valle del Golfo Health
Center, Canary Islands, Spain Arun Gautam, MD
Department of Medicine, Hartford Hospital, University of Connecticut School of
Medicine, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Benedict M. Glover, MD,
FESC
Division of Cardiology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Shreyas
Gowdar, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Hartford Hospital, University of
Connecticut School of Medicine, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Martin
Green, MD, FRCPC
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute,
Ottawa, Canada Diego Jiménez Sanchez, MD
Hospital Puerta de Hierro, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain Robert Lemery, MD,
FRCPC, FESC, FHRS
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute,
Ottawa, Canada Philippe Mabo, MD
Faculté de Médecine, Université Rennes 1; Cardiology and Vascular Diseases
Division, Rennes University Hospital, Rennes, France Marco Marano, MD
Hemodialysis Unit, Maria Rosaria Clinic, Pompeii, Italy Manuel Martínez-
Sellés, MD
Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Universidad Europea y
Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain Raphaël Martins, MD, PhD
Faculté de Médecine, Université Rennes 1; Cardiology and Vascular Diseases
Division, Rennes University Hospital, Rennes, France Albert Massó van-
Roessel, MD
Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Cardiovascular Research Center, CSIC-
ICCC, Barcelona, Spain Pyotr G. Platonov, MD, PhD, FHRS, FESC
Arrhythmia Clinic, Skåne University Hospital; Department of Cardiology,
Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden Fariha Sadiq Ali, MD
Division of Cardiology, Kingston General Hospital, Queen’s University,
Kingston, Ontario, Canada Damián Sánchez-Quintana, MD
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of
Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain David H. Spodick, MD, DSc
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Saint Vincent Hospital, University of
Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States Larisa
G. Tereshchenko, MD, PhD
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Knight Cardiovascular Institute,
Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States Erik M.
van Oosten, MD, MSc
Department of Medicine, Western University, London Health Sciences Centre,
London, Ontario, Canada Roger Villuendas, MD
Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona,
Barcelona, Spain Colin Yeo, MBBS, MRCP (Edinburgh) Clinical Cardiac
Electrophysiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada