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Nonspecific symptoms post-pulmonary vein isolation: overdiagnosis and overtreatment or dodging disaster?

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  1. Diagnostic and interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, University Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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Sänger, J.A. Nonspecific symptoms post-pulmonary vein isolation: overdiagnosis and overtreatment or dodging disaster?. Wien Klin Wochenschr 136, 241–242 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00508-024-02338-0

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