Looking beyond the ablation shore, treating atrial fibrillation from afar: integrating anatomic, physiologic, neurologic, and cardiovascular principles into novel therapies

Affiliations

¹ Section of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Division of Cardiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota.
² Section of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Division of Cardiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Electronic address: david.callans@uphs.upenn.edu.

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Suraj Kapa et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2015.

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. 2015 Mar 10;65(9):876-8.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2014.12.025.

¹ Section of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Division of Cardiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota.
² Section of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Division of Cardiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Electronic address: david.callans@uphs.upenn.edu.

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Keywords: atrial fibrillation; autonomic nervous system; catheter ablation; electrophysiology.

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