Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: long-term outcomes and mechanisms of arrhythmia recurrence.

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Published in Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol on October 10, 2013

Authors

Pasquale Santangeli1, Luigi Di Biase, Sakis Themistoclakis, Antonio Raviele, Robert A Schweikert, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, Prasant Mohanty, Rong Bai, Sanghamitra Mohanty, Agnes Pump, Salwa Beheiry, Richard Hongo, Javier E Sanchez, G Joseph Gallinghouse, Rodney Horton, Antonio Dello Russo, Michela Casella, Gaetano Fassini, Claude S Elayi, J David Burkhardt, Claudio Tondo, Andrea Natale

Author Affiliations

1: Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, St David's Medical Center, Austin, TX.

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