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This chapter gives an overview of accessory pathways covering basic nomenclature, the EP study and management options for AVRT.
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Lim, W.Y., Baca, M. (2020). Accessory Pathways and Atrioventricular Re-entrant Tachycardia (AVRT). In: Sohaib, A. (eds) Decoding Cardiac Electrophysiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28672-9_4
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