Interatrial Block and Supraventricular Arrhythmias: Clinical Implications of Bayés Syndrome
Edited by Adrian Baranchuk MD
Publication date:
03 January 2017Length of book:
216 pagesPublisher
Cardiotext PublishingISBN-13: 9781942909163
Bayés’ syndrome refers to the association between interatrial block and supraventricular arrhythmias—mainly the occurrence of atrial fibrillation. It is also a risk factor for cardio-embolic stroke. Rapid recognition by analyzing characteristic patterns in the surface ECG will help the physician to closely monitor the patient for atrial fibrillation and decide on anticoagulation therapy if the clinical risk of stroke is increased.
Interatrial blocks were described several decades ago; however, they are now gaining the attention of the medical community as a means of helping to identify patients at high risk of developing atrial fibrillation and/or cardio-embolic stroke.
I welcome all readers to navigate this book and to become familiar with this concept that is helping to renovate our models of predicting atrial fibrillation and stroke.
Interatrial Block and Supraventricular Arrhythmias: Clinical Implications of Bayés’ Syndrome, has been superbly edited by Adrian Baranchuk, an important clinical investigator of the syndrome. Baranchuk has thoughtfully and successfully pulled together the many threads of clinical research on the syndrome. This book will surely stimulate interest in what has been a largely neglected corner of cardiology. As a consequence of the outstanding work of Bayés, Baranchuk, and the authors who have contributed to this book, interatrial block is no longer a stepchild.
-Eugene Braunwald, MD
Boston, Massachusetts