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Teerapat Yingchoncharoen1, Saurabh Jha1, Luke J Burchill1

  • 1Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Desk J1-5, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.

Cardiac Electrophysiology Clinics
|April 12, 2016
PubMed

Keywords:
Atrial fibrillationLeft atrial appendageStrokeTransesophageal echocardiography

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