13th International Congress
THE "NEW FRONTIERS"
OF ARRHYTHMIAS 1998

January 24-31, 1998
Marilleva, Trento, Italy

RT-186

Clinical experience with low energy intracardiac atrial defibrillation

Luigi Padeletti, Maria Cristina Porciani, Antonio Michelucci, Andrea Colella, Silvio Vena, Pietro Ticci, Massimo Zoppi, Gian Franco Gensini.
Istituto di Clinica Medica Generale e Cardiologia, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy

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