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Catheter Ablation in Combination With Left Atrial Appendage Closure for Atrial Fibrillation
Published on: February 26, 2013
Perforation of the right atrium during radiofrequency catheter ablation
Mitchell Tsai1, J Matthew Fisher, Mitchell Norotsky
1Department of Anesthesiology, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, VT 05401, USA. mtasahi@hotmail.com
Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
|May 28, 2008
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