Book Description Newly revised and updated, the Second Edition offers timely guidance on evaluation and management of atrial fibrillation and describes the latest pharmacological, electrophysiological, and surgical therapies. Coverage includes extensively revised chapters on echocardiography, anticoagulant therapy, and catheter ablation and new chapters on atrial flutter, basic electrophysiology of antiarrhythmic drugs, implantable atrial defibrillators, and conduction through the atrioventricular node. Also included are chapters on decision analysis in the treatment of atrial fibrillation and on the special problems of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. Book Info Boston Univ., MA. Comprehensive review of atrial fibrillation and its therapy for cardiologists or internists. Includes disease mechanisms, risk factors, medical and nonmedical treatment. 49 contributors, 23 U.S. Previous edition: c1992. DNLM: Atrial Fibrillation--physiopathology.