Heart Rhythm
Volume 2, Issue 11 , Pages 1186-1187 , November 2005

Modification of the slow pathway in atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia: No pain, no gain

  • John Triedman, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. John Triedman, Department of Cardiology, Children’s Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.

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PII: S1547-5271(05)02008-4

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2005.08.016

Heart Rhythm
Volume 2, Issue 11 , Pages 1186-1187 , November 2005

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