Effectiveness of a strategy to reduce major vascular complications from catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation.

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Published in J Interv Card Electrophysiol on February 19, 2011

Authors

Fnu Abhishek1, Edwin Kevin Heist, Conor Barrett, Stephan Danik, Dan Blendea, Christina Correnti, Zaka Khan, Jeremy N Ruskin, Moussa Mansour

Author Affiliations

1: Cardiac Arrhythmia Service, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.

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