Heart Rhythm
Volume 7, Issue 2 , Pages 155-156 , February 2010

Atrial fibrillation and inflammation: Quest for the missing link in the etiopathogenesis of AF

  • Sanjay Dixit, MD, FHRS

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Sanjay Dixit, 9 Founders Pavilion, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

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doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.10.027

Heart Rhythm
Volume 7, Issue 2 , Pages 155-156 , February 2010

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