Functional characterization of atrial electrograms in sinus rhythm delineates sites of parasympathetic innervation in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.

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Published in J Am Coll Cardiol on September 17, 2007

Authors

Nicolas Lellouche1, Eric Buch, Andrew Celigoj, Carin Siegerman, David Cesario, Carlos De Diego, Aman Mahajan, Noel G Boyle, Isaac Wiener, Alan Garfinkel, Kalyanam Shivkumar

Author Affiliations

1: UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095-1679, USA.

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