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Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Obesity
John V Wylie1, Mark E Josephson1
1Harvard-Thorndike Electrophysiology Institute, Cardiovascular Division,Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Journal of Atrial Fibrillation
|May 13, 2017
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