Pulsed holmium laser ablation of cardiac
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Lothar Lilge; Dr. Wolfgang Radtke; Norman S. Nishioka
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Article
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1989
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Ablation efficiency and residual thermal damage produced by pulsed holmium laser radiation were investigated in vitro for bovine mitral valves and human calcified and noncalcified cardiac valves. Low-OH quartz fibers (200 and 600 pm core diameter) were used in direct contact perpendicular to the spe