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The WATCHMAN Left Atrial Appendage Closure Device for Atrial Fibrillation
Published on: February 28, 2012
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Embolization of a left atrial appendage closure device
Alzira Nunes1, Diana Pissarra2, Marta Tavares Silva3
1Serviço de Cardiologia, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, E.P.E., Porto, Portugal.
Revista Portuguesa De Cardiologia
|January 23, 2021
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