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European Heart Journal 2001 22(17):1524-1526; doi:10.1053/euhj.2000.2684
Copyright © 2001 by the European Society of Cardiology.
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Early atrial defibrillation; ‘a stitch in time saves nine’ or ‘haste makes waste’?

R.E. Idekera and P.C. Fotuhib

a Departments of Medicine, Physiology, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A.
b Department of Cardiology, Charite Hospital, Berlin, Germany

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