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Non-pulmonary veins triggers improve the rate of freedom of AF. Most of them can be targeted with focal ablation.
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Romero, J., Gomez, I.A., Grushko, M., Diaz, J.C., Natale, V., Di Biase, L. (2020). Septal Atrial Premature Contraction Induced Atrial Fibrillation. 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_84
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