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Catheter Ablation in Combination With Left Atrial Appendage Closure for Atrial Fibrillation
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Catheter Ablation in Combination With Left Atrial Appendage Closure for Atrial Fibrillation

Published on: February 26, 2013

[Atrial fibrillation: new approaches to intervention treatment]

L A Bokeriia, A Sh Revishvili

    Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Meditsinskikh Nauk
    |March 4, 2009
    PubMed

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