Excessive supraventricular ectopic activity is a simple cutoff for predicting late recurrence of atrial fibrillation

Tomoki Fujisawa1, Hiroshi Kawakami2, Shunsuke Tamaki1

  • 1Division of Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology, Hypertension, and Nephrology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Shitsukawa, Toon, Ehime, 791-0295, Japan.

Heart and Vessels
|December 15, 2024
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