Heart Rhythm
Volume 7, Issue 3 , Pages 413-416 , March 2010

Transconduit puncture for catheter ablation of atrial tachycardia in a patient with extracardiac Fontan palliation

  • Amish S. Dave, MD, PhD
    • ,
  • Jamil Aboulhosn, MD
    • ,
  • John S. Child, MD, FACC
    • ,
  • Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD, FACC, FHRS

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Kalyanam Shivkumar, UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 47-123 CHS, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90095

Received 25 September 2009 ,Accepted 29 October 2009.

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 This work was supported by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institutes Grants R01-HL084261 and R01-HL067647 to Dr. Shivkumar.

PII: S1547-5271(09)01257-0

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.10.037

Heart Rhythm
Volume 7, Issue 3 , Pages 413-416 , March 2010

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