Heart Rhythm
Volume 3, Issue 10 , Pages 1162-1163 , October 2006

Prevention of esophageal injury during catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation: Is intracardiac echocardiography the answer?

  • Hugh Calkins, MD

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Hugh Calkins, M.D., The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Carnegie 530, Baltimore, MD 21287.

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  5. Ren J , Lin D , Marchlinski F , Callans D , Patel V . Esophageal imaging and strategies for avoiding injury during left atrial ablation for atrial fibrillation . Heart Rhythm . 2006;3:1156–1161

PII: S1547-5271(06)01715-2

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.06.019

Heart Rhythm
Volume 3, Issue 10 , Pages 1162-1163 , October 2006

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