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Cellular Electrophysiology and Electrocardiography

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The heartbeat is a biological process, which consists of an electrical phenomenon essential to the cardiac cycle. Knowledge of the physiology of the cardiac action potential and its effects on the heart provides valuable information to help understand a wide range of cardiac pathologies and its manifestation through the electrocardiogram. The basic principles of normal cellular electrophysiology changes and its relationship to electrocardiography are reviewed in this chapter.

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  1. Pediatric Cardiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA

    Carlos Miranda MD, Anas Taqatqa MD, Cyndi Sosnowski MD & Ra-id Abdulla MD

  2. Pediatric Cardiology, Rush University Medical Center, 1650 W. Harrison Street, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA

    Leen Alsaleh

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  1. Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Rush University Medical Center, CHICAGO, Illinois, USA

    Ra-id Abdulla

  2. Department of Cardiology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, USA

    William Bonney

  3. Department of Cardiology, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, COLUMBUS, Ohio, USA

    Omar Khalid

  4. Department of Pediatrics, Rush University Medical Center, CHICAGO, Illinois, USA

    Sawsan Awad

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Miranda, C., Taqatqa, A., Sosnowski, C., Alsaleh, L., Abdulla, Ri. (2016). Cellular Electrophysiology and Electrocardiography. In: Abdulla, Ri., Bonney, W., Khalid, O., Awad, S. (eds) Pediatric Electrocardiography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26258-1_2

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