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Atrial Flutter Post Atrial Septal Defect Repair

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Abstract

Multiple macroreentry circuits can coexist after previous cardiac surgery. Most of them are caused by post-procedural scar tissue, but it is also common to find “CTI-dependent circuit atrial flutter”.

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  1. Division of Cardiology, Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Montefiore-Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care, Bronx, NY, USA

    Jorge Romero, Isabella Alviz Gomez, Michael Grushko, Veronica Natale & Luigi Di Biase

  2. Montefiore Medical Center, Cardiology—Arrhythmia Service, Bronx, NY, USA

    Nicola Tarantino

  3. Department of Electrophysiology, Clinica Las Vegas, Medellin, Colombia

    Juan Carlos Diaz

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  1. N. IH 35 3000, St. David’s Medical Center, Austin, TX, USA

    Andrea Natale

  2. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Paul J. Wang

  3. Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia, Austin, TX, USA

    Amin Al-Ahmad

  4. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    N. A. Mark Estes

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Romero, J. et al. (2020). Atrial Flutter Post Atrial Septal Defect Repair. In: Natale, A., Wang, P., Al-Ahmad, A., Estes, N. (eds) Cardiac Electrophysiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28533-3_80

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