Role of Scar and Rotors in Persistent Atrial Fibrillation: Miles to Go Before We Sleep

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¹ Department of Cardiology, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California, USA. Electronic address: RMandapati@llu.edu.
² Department of Cardiology, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California, USA.

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Ravi Mandapati et al. JACC Clin Electrophysiol. 2021 Jul.

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. 2021 Jul;7(7):920-922.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacep.2021.06.005.

¹ Department of Cardiology, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California, USA. Electronic address: RMandapati@llu.edu.
² Department of Cardiology, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California, USA.

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Keywords: atrial fibrillation; focal sources; mapping; re-entry; rotors.

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Funding Support and Author Disclosures The authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.

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