Surgical Ganglionic Plexus Ablation in Atrial Fibrillation: Is All Hope Lost for the Plexus?
Gregory F Michaud1, Saurabh Kumar1
1Cardiovascular Division, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
|September 10, 2016
Abstract
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