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      Paroxysmal AF catheter ablation with a contact force sensing catheter: results of the prospective, multicenter SMART-AF trial.

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          Catheter ablation is important for treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF). Limited animal and human studies suggest a correlation between electrode-tissue contact and radiofrequency lesion generation.

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          Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J. Am. Coll. Cardiol.
          Title: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
          ISSN (Electronic): 1558-3597
          ISSN (Print): 0735-1097
          Publication date (Electronic): Aug 19 2014
          Volume: 64
          Issue: 7
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St. David's Medical Center, Austin, Texas; Division of Cardiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California; Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; EP Services, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California; Interventional Electrophysiology, Scripps Clinic, San Diego, California; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, Texas. Electronic address: dr.natale@gmail.com.
          [2 ] Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
          [3 ] Florida Hospital Cardiovascular Institute, Orlando, Florida.
          [4 ] Loyola University, Maywood, Illinois.
          [5 ] Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
          [6 ] University of Alabama at Birmingham; Birmingham, Alabama.
          [7 ] Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta, Georgia.
          [8 ] Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
          [9 ] Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
          [10 ] Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
          [11 ] University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
          [12 ] Biosense Webster, Inc., Diamond Bar, California.
          [13 ] Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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          Publisher Item ID: S0735-1097(14)04120-5
          DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2014.04.072
          PubMed ID: 25125294
          SO-VID: 5f0322cf-1aa0-4586-84d0-7a62f71b6604
          Copyright © Copyright © 2014 American College of Cardiology Foundation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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          Keywords: atrial fibrillation,catheter ablation,contact force,radiofrequency
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          Keywords: atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation, contact force, radiofrequency

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