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Mapped triggers in 45 selected patients and found most foci in pulmonary veins.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact ten-author 1998 New England Journal of Medicine study. Its selected cohort, mapping protocol and short follow-up do not establish general comparative efficacy, modern procedural safety or every mechanism of atrial fibrillation.
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The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact ten-author 1998 New England Journal of Medicine study. Its selected cohort, mapping protocol and short follow-up do not establish general comparative efficacy, modern procedural safety or every mechanism of atrial fibrillation.
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