Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship, Summa Health Heart and Vascular Institute, Summa Health System, 95 Arch Street, Suite 350, Akron, OH 44304, USA.
Med Clin North Am. 2019 Sep;103(5):767-774. doi: 10.1016/j.mcna.2019.04.002.
This article represents an overview of the basic concepts of cardiac electrophysiology. This relatively new field became a subspecialty of cardiology in the mid-1990s due to the rapid development of equipment that allowed the study and cure of cardiac arrhythmias percutaneously. Simultaneously, technology provided the field with percutaneous cardiac implantable electronic devices designed to protect patients from life-threatening bradyarrhythmias and tachyarrhythmias. Recently, the field has focused on the ablative treatment of atrial fibrillation, the most common arrhythmia facing an aging population, and the diagnosis and management of many inherited arrhythmias through advances in understanding of their genetic cause.
本文概述了心脏电生理学的基本概念。由于能够经皮研究和治疗心律失常的设备迅速发展，该相对较新的领域在 20 世纪 90 年代中期成为心脏病学的一个亚专科。同时，技术为该领域提供了经皮心脏植入式电子设备，旨在保护患者免受危及生命的缓慢性心律失常和快速性心律失常的影响。最近，该领域的重点已转向通过了解其遗传原因来治疗最常见的心律失常——心房颤动，并诊断和管理许多遗传性心律失常。
