Heart Rhythm
Volume 2, Issue 11 , Pages 1195-1202 , November 2005

Reentrant and nonreentrant focal left atrial tachycardias occur after pulmonary vein isolation

Received 1 May 2005 ,Accepted 10 August 2005.

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PII: S1547-5271(05)02012-6

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2005.08.020

Heart Rhythm
Volume 2, Issue 11 , Pages 1195-1202 , November 2005

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