Heart Rhythm
Volume 7, Issue 2 , Pages 157-164 , February 2010

Circumferential pulmonary vein isolation and linear left atrial ablation as a single-catheter technique to achieve bidirectional conduction block: The pace-and-ablate approach

Received 29 August 2009 ,Accepted 4 October 2009.

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PII: S1547-5271(09)01147-3

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.10.003

Heart Rhythm
Volume 7, Issue 2 , Pages 157-164 , February 2010

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