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For more than a decade, patients with drug-refractory supraventricular tachycardias have been treated with disruption of the normal atrioventricular conducting system or by division of anomalous atrioventricular connections at the time of open-heart surgery. In order to avoid the need for a thoracotomy, nonoperative techniques to modulate conduction have recently been developed.
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Ruder, M.A., Scheinman, M.M. (1988). Effects of High-Energy Electrical Shocks Delivered to Atrial or Atrioventricular Junctional Tissue. In: Scheinman, M.M. (eds) Catheter Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 78. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1765-4_3
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