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Atrioventricular Nodal Re-entry Tachycardia (AVNRT) & AV node Ablation

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This chapter gives an overview of re-entry tachycardias dependent on the AV node and describes the approach to partial (AVNRT ) and complete (AV node) catheter ablation .

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Behar, J.M. (2020). Atrioventricular Nodal Re-entry Tachycardia (AVNRT) & AV node Ablation. In: Sohaib, A. (eds) Decoding Cardiac Electrophysiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28672-9_3

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