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Catheter Ablation in Combination With Left Atrial Appendage Closure for Atrial Fibrillation
Published on: February 26, 2013
Thrombus formation after successful stapler exclusion of the left atrial appendage
Kathleen Stergiopoulos1, Frank Seifert, David L Brown
1Department of Internal Medicine, Stony Brook University Medical Center, State University of New York Health Sciences Center, Stony Brook, New York, USA.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
|February 2, 2010
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