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Catheter Ablation in Combination With Left Atrial Appendage Closure for Atrial Fibrillation
Published on: February 26, 2013
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Delayed and fatal embolization of a left atrial appendage closure device
Adel Aminian1, Iman Chouchane2, Michèle Compagnie2
1From the Division of Cardiology (A.A., I.C., M.D., J.L.) and Division of Internal Medicine (M.C.), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Charleroi, Charleroi, Belgium. adaminian@hotmail.com.
Circulation. Cardiovascular Interventions
|August 21, 2014
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