Is an elevated burden of antiarrhythmic drug (AAD) side-effects the unavoidable price to be traded for a durable suppression of AF relapses in ablated patients? The weaknesses and risks of the AAD suppression algorithm used by current models of AF secondary prevention after catheter ablation-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Is an elevated burden of antiarrhythmic drug (AAD) side-effects the unavoidable price to be traded for a durable suppression of AF relapses in ablated patients? The weaknesses and risks of the AAD suppression algorithm used by current models of AF secondary prevention after catheter ablation

Published:2019-01-29 Issue:6 Volume:75 Page:873-874
ISSN:0031-6970
Container-title:European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
language:en
Short-container-title:Eur J Clin Pharmacol

Author:

De Vecchis Renato^ORCID

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Pharmacology (medical),Pharmacology,General Medicine

Link

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00228-019-02638-9/fulltext.html

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