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

January 24-31, 1998
Marilleva, Trento, Italy

S-23

Clinical impact of electroanatomically guided catheter compartmentation of human atria in the treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Carlo Pappone, Giuseppe Oreto*, Francesco Furlanello, Maria Luisa Loricchio, Gabriele Vicedomini, Stefano Bianchi, Shlomo Shpun**, Cristoforo D'Ascia, Maria Pia Calabro*, Cosimo Dicandia, Shlomo A. Ben-Haim**, Tiziana Russo, Sergio Chierchia.
Cardiology Department, Hospital S. Raffaele, Milan, *Cardiology Department, University of Messina, Messina, Italy, **Cardiovascular System Laboratory, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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