Current Concepts In Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy Dysplasia

Current Concepts in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy/Dysplasia (ARVC/D) presents important insights to all aspects of this disease. Discussion of ARVC/D by the experts includes: pathophysiology, molecular mechanisms, and genetic background; challenges in the clinical setting in regard to diagnosis, risk stratification, and therapy.

Current Concepts in Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy, Second Edition presents essential insights into all aspects of this complex disease and will serve as a valuable guide to help readers provide the best possible care for their patients. Discussion by internationally recognized authorities includes: -Increasing evidence that arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy is not necessarily confined to the RV, but often involves both ventricles -Basic and clinical science of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy -Pathophysiology, molecular mechanisms, and genetic background -The mechanisms of disease progression leading to a diversity of diseasephenotypes -Guidance in the clinical setting for diagnosis, risk stratification, and therapy

Edited and written by internationally recognized authorities, Current Concepts in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy/Dysplasia (ARVC/D) presents important insights to all aspects of this unique disease and will serve as a valuable guide to help readers provide the best possible care for their patients. Discussion of ARVC/D by the experts includes: Basic and clinical science. Pathophysiology, molecular mechanisms, and genetic background. The mechanisms of disease progression leading to a diversity of disease phenotypes. Challenges in the clinical setting with respect to diagnosis, risk stratification, and therapy.

This book covers all aspects (biological, pathological, genetic, clinical and therapeutical) of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia, a recent cardiomyopathy which represents a very high risk of sudden death in the young and in the athletes. This monograph gathers the results of a five-year research program on ARVC/D which allowed the discovery of 5 disease-causing genes, thus opening new avenues for the early identification of affected patients.

Edited and written by internationally recognized authorities, Current Concepts in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy/Dysplasia (ARVC/D) presents important insights to all aspects of this unique disease and will serve as a valuable guide to help readers provide the best possible care for their patients. Discussion of ARVC/D by the experts includes: · Basic and clinical science. · Pathophysiology, molecular mechanisms, and genetic background. · The mechanisms of disease progression leading to a diversity of disease phenotypes. · Challenges in the clinical setting with respect to diagnosis, risk stratification, and therapy. “The editors…have enlisted as authors those who first recognized and named the disease, and most of those responsible for the recent advances in this fascinating area. The result is an excellent, comprehensive but very readable text dealing with this increasingly important spectrum of diseases. It is a unique book that should be found on the shelves of everyone who seeks to manage patients with cardiac arrhythmia because amongst those who seek advice there are sure to be patients with this challenging disease.” - From the foreword by A. John Camm, MD

Hardbound. In this book a complete overview of current knowledge is presented, running from pathology to recent progress in molecular biology and with special reference to diagnostic procedures and pharmacologic-non pharmacologic therapies. Incidence and natural history of the disease are addressed as well, stressing the occurrence of sudden death.The book, the first on the topic, is an updated survey on ARVC/D and includes 38 chapters with a worldwide authorship as a result of an international cooperative study.

Cardiomyopathies are diseases of the heart muscle with diverse etiologies ranging from myocarditis to gene mutations. They are classified according to morphology and function, and then further categorized based on whether they are familial or non-familial and based on specific etiologies. This book examines the various cardiomyopathies, including arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and dilated cardiomyopathy, as well as their genetic basis.