Where are we with atrial fibrillation ablation?;Ablación de la fibrilación auricular: ¿Dónde estamos?

Revista Espanola de Cardiologia

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1087-1091

  Pappone, Carlo ^a   Santinelli, Vincenzo ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULMONARY VEIN; STENOSIS;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; HUMANS;

EID: 70350557807     PISSN: 03008932     EISSN: 15792242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-8932(09)72375-9     Document Type: Editorial

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