Table of Contents:

Part I:  History of Thoracic Vein Arrhythmias

Chapter 1.     History of Thoracic Vein Arrhythmias:  Pulmonary Veins and Venae Cavae

Chapter 2.     The Ligaments of Marshall

Chapter 3.     Coronary Sinus Electrophysiology and Arrhythmogenesis:  Historical Developments

Part II:  Anatomy and Basic Electrophysiology of the Thoracic Veins

Chapter 4.     Anatomy of the Pulmonary Veins

Chapter 5.     Anatomy of the Pulmonary Vein-Atrium Junction

Chapter 6.     Anatomy of the Vena Cava:  An Electrophysiological Perspective

Chapter 7.     Anatomy of the Coronary Sinus

Chapter 8.     Imaging of the Cardiac and Thoracic Veins

Chapter 9.     Immunohistology of the Thoracic Veins

Chapter 10.   Ionic Currents and Mechanisms of Ectopy from the Thoracic Veins

Chapter 11.   Stretch-Related Atrial Remodeling:  Role in the Genesis of Atrial Fibrillation

Chapter 12.   High-Density Mapping of Thoracic Vein Arrhythmias

Chapter 13.   Optical Mapping of Thoracic Vein Arrhythmias

Chapter 14.   Effects of Electrical Stimulation of Autonomic Ganglia at the Thoracic Veins

Chapter 15.   Maintenance of Atrial Fibrillation:  Thoracic Vein or Atrial Substrate?

Part III:  Clinical Electrophysiology and Ablation Therapy of Thoracic Vein Atrial Fibrillation

Chapter 16.   Electrocardiographic Characteristics of Atrial Fibrillation Initiators from the Thoracic Veins

Chapter 17.   Mapping of Atrial Fibrillation Initiators from the Thoracic Veins

Chapter 18.   Autonomic Modulation of Thoracic Vein Atrial Fibrillation

Chapter 19.   Clinical Electrophysiology of the Pulmonary Veins

Chapter 20.   Catheter Ablation of Pulmonary Vein Atrial Fibrillation:  Circumferential Ablation

Chapter 21.   Catheter Ablation of Pulmonary Vein Atrial Fibrillation:  Segmental and Limited Linear Ablation

Chapter 22.   Clinical Electrophysiology and Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation from the Superior Vena Cava

Chapter 23.   Clinical Electrophysiology and Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation from the Ligament of Marshall

Chapter 24.   Clinical Electrophysiology and Catheter Ablation of the Coronary Sinus in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

Chapter 25.   Pulmonary Vein Isolation for Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Structural Heart Disease

Chapter 26.   Role of Linear Ablation in Thoracic Vein Atrial Fibrillation

Chapter 27.   New Technologies for Catheter Isolation of the Pulmonary Veins

Chapter 28.   Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation:  Pulmonary Vein Isolation