Lone atrial fibrillation: A disease threatened with extinction

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1270-1271

  Katritsis, Demosthenes G ^a  

^a Athens Euroclinic   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.5 GENE; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.8 GENE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; FEMALE; FUNNEL CHEST; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84883243752     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2013.05.024     Document Type: Editorial

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