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Catheter Ablation in Combination With Left Atrial Appendage Closure for Atrial Fibrillation
Published on: February 26, 2013
Intramural left atrial hematoma complicating catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation
Jen-Li Looi1, Alex Pui-Wai Lee1, Chin-Pang Chan1
1Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
|May 18, 2013
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