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Stroke risk associated with balloon based catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation: Rationale and design of the MACPAF Study

✍ Scribed by Karl Georg Haeusler; Lydia Koch; Juliane Ueberreiter; Matthias Endres; Heinz-Peter Schultheiss; Peter U Heuschmann; Alexander Schirdewan; Jochen B Fiebach

Book ID: 115009306
Publisher: BioMed Central
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 216 KB
Volume: 10
Category: Article
ISSN: 1471-2377
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-10-63

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