Heart Rhythm
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Pages 17-19 , January 2007

Entrapment of circular mapping catheter in the mitral valve

  • Milos Kesek, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Heart Centre, University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Milos Kesek, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Cardiology, Heart Centre, University Hospital, S-901 85, Umeå, Sweden.
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  • Anders Englund, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden
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  • Steen M. Jensen, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Heart Centre, University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden
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  • Mats Jensen-Urstad, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.

Received 25 August 2006 ,Accepted 11 September 2006.

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PII: S1547-5271(06)01966-7

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.09.016

Heart Rhythm
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Pages 17-19 , January 2007

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