You get what you inspect, not what you expect: can we make the transseptal puncture safer?
Open Access
- 28 September 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in EP Europace
- Vol. 12 (10), 1353-1355
- https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euq358
Abstract
This editorial refers to ‘Transseptal puncture using minimally invasive echocardiography during atrial fibrillation ablation’ by L. Mitchell-Heggs et al., on page 1435Keywords
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