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Phang Boon Lim1, Prapa Kanagaratnam1

  • 11Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0HS, UK.

Future Cardiology
|May 30, 2015
PubMed
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Keywords:
atrial fibrillationautonomic nervous systemganglionated plexihigh-frequency stimulationpulmonary vein

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