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Catheter Ablation in Combination With Left Atrial Appendage Closure for Atrial Fibrillation
Published on: February 26, 2013
Which is the best approach for ablation of long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation?
Luigi Di Biase1, Pasquale Santangeli, John David Burkhardt
1St. David's Medical Center, Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, Austin, Texas; Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, New York; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, Texas; Department of Cardiology, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy.
Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology : PACE
|July 5, 2013
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