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Improving procedural and one-year outcome after contact force-guided pulmonary vein isolation: the role of interlesion distance, ablation index, and contact force variability in the ‘CLOSE’-protocol

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Natural Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Cardiology +16

Control of radiofrequency lesion size by power regulation.

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