**Meet the editor**

Dr. Umashankar Lakshmanadoss completed his medical residency training from the University of Rochester, NY, USA. He served as the director of Inpatient Medical Consult Service at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA, and then joined the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Guthrie Clinic, PA, USA. Then, he pursued training in cardiac electrophysiology at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, MI, USA, and continued his advanced cardiac electrophysiology training at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. Afterward, he served as an assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, LA, USA, where he also served as the director of Complex Arrhythmia Ablation Program. Currently, he is a consultant in cardiac electrophysiology, Ballad CVA Heart Institute, Kingsport, TN, USA.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Atrial Arrhythmias 1**

Hamid Reza Bonakdar

**for Atrial Fibrillation 63**

Chapter 5 **Idiopathic Ventricular Arrhythmias 79**

Takashi Murashita

**Section 2 Non Atrial Arrhythmias 77**

Takumi Yamada

**Syndrome 121**

Damian Alzugaray Bioeng

Chapter 3 **Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation 43**

Chapter 1 **Gene Polymorphisms Associated with Atrial Fibrillation 3** Nevra Alkanli, Arzu Ay and Suleyman Serdar Alkanli

Chapter 2 **Atrial Flutter: Diagnosis and Management Strategies 23**

Claudia M. Loardi, Marco Zanobini and Francesco Alamanni

Chapter 4 **Histopathological Change Following Cox-Maze IV Procedure**

Chapter 6 **Brugada Type 1 Pattern and Risk Stratification for Sudden Death: Does the Key Hide in the ECG Analysis? 103** Antoine Deliniere, Francis Bessiere, Adrien Moreau, Alexandre

Chapter 7 **Endocardial Approach for Substrate Ablation in Brugada**

Pablo E. Tauber, Virginia Mansilla, Pedro Brugada, Sara S. Sánchez, Stella M. Honoré, Marcelo Elizari, Sergio Chain Molina, Felix A. Albano, Ricardo R. Corbalán, Federico Figueroa Castellanos and

Janin, Gilles Millat and Philippe Chevalier
