Epicardial Interventions in Electrophysiology An Issue of Cardiac Electrophysiology Clinics The Clinics: Internal Medicine Series

This issue of Cardiac Electrophysiology Clinics, Guest Edited by Drs. Jason Bradfield and Kalyanam Shivkumar, is dedicated to Epicardial Interventions in Electrophysiology. This is one of four issues selected each year by the series Consulting Editors, Ranjan K. Thakur and Andrea Natale. Topics include, but are not limited to, Anatomy of the Pericardial Space, Techniques for Percutaneous Access, Peri-operative Imaging to Guide Epicardial Mapping and Ablation, Epicardial Ablation of Idiopathic Ventricular Tachycardia, Epicardial Ablation of Ischemic Ventricular Tachycardia, Epicardial Ablation of Non-ischemic Ventricular Tachycardia, Epicardial Ablation of Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy, Epicardial Ablation of Ventricular Arrhythmia secondary to Brugada Syndrome, Epicardial Ablation of Supraventricular Tachycardia, Epicardial Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation, Hybrid Surgical Epicardial Ablation, Epicardial Ablation via the Arterial and Venous System, Epicardial Ablation Biophysics and novel Radiofrequency Energy Delivery Techniques, Epicardial Ablation Complications, and The Future of Epicardial Interventions.

Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, who contributed to the current edition, is a well known and distinguished professor and electrophysiologist. He has been Director of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and Cardiac Catheterization Lab as well as the electrophysiology fellowship program at UCLA Medical Center for many years. He is also currently editor-in-chief of JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology, a well respected Elsevier/JACC cardiology journal. Dr Shivkumar will replace John Miller, MD who will retire from this edition.