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Brain freeze: cryoablation of typical atrial flutter in a patient with a deep brain stimulator

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    Shaan Khurshid

  2. Demoulas Center for Cardiac Arrhythmias, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

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Khurshid, S., Hanley, A. Brain freeze: cryoablation of typical atrial flutter in a patient with a deep brain stimulator. J Interv Card Electrophysiol 64, 549–550 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10840-022-01223-y

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