Signal Averaged Electrocardiography

1. The signal averaged ECG: a historical perspective.- 2. Pathophysiology of late potentials.- 3. Electrophysiological mechanisms of reentrant ventricular tachyarrhythmias.- 4. The methods of recording and analysis of the signal averaged ECG.- 5. The vector magnitude, time domain analysis and standards for late potentials.- 6. Frequency domain analysis.- 7. Spectrotemporal mapping of the surface ECG for detection of ventricular late potentials.- 8. Spectral turbulence analysis.- 9. Body surface mapping of late potentials.- 10. Twenty-four hour analysis for late potential activity: method and implications.- 11. Beat-by-beat recording of high resolution ECG: technical considerations.- 12. Importance of noise reduction for signal averaged electrocardiography.- 13. Reproducibility and variation in assessing late potentials.- 14. The signal averaged ECG in the detection of sinus atrial abnormalities.- 15. Clinical significance of high resolution electrocardiography - sinus node, His bundle and ventricular late potentials.- 16. The role of signal averaged ECG in detecting tachycardias.- 17. The signal averaged ECG in patients with sustained ventricular tachycardia in the setting of coronary artery disease.- 18. The signal averaged ECG in patients with cardiomyopathy.- 19. The signal averaged ECG in patients with sustained ventricular tachycardia and no evidence of heart disease.- 20. The effect of myocardial resection on the signal averaged ECG.- 21. The signal averaged ECG in patients with bundle branch block.- 22. The signal averaged ECG in the diagnosis of syncope.- 23. Use of the signal averaged ECG in the management of nonsustained ventricular tachycardia.- 24. Role of the signal averaged ECG in patients without coronary artery disease and nonsustained ventriculartachycardia.- 25. The signal averaged ECG in patients with nonsustained ventricular tachycardia - a perspective.- 26. Natural history of late potentials after myocardial infarction.- 27. Risk stratification