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European Heart Journal 2001 22(1):19-21; doi:10.1053/euhj.2000.2450
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Editorial

’Slow pathway‘ ablation in patients with atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia: do we understand what we are doing?

P. Loh and G Breithardt

Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hospital of the Westfälische, Wilhelms-University of Münster, Münster, Germany

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