Complex Fractionated Atrial Electrograms: is This the Beast to Tame in Atrial Fibrillation?

Overview

Journal Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol

Specialty Cardiology & Vascular Diseases

Date 2011 Aug 18

PMID 21846887

Citations 7

Authors

Omer Berenfeld

Jose Jalife

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