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- Atrial fibrillation [online], Heart Foundation. More information here.
- ‘Contemporary management of atrial fibrillation’, in Australian Prescriber [online], vol. 23, no. 25, pp. 100–102. More information here.
- Consumer summary: Intraoperative ablation for the treatment of atrial fibrillation [online], Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures – Surgical (ASERNIPS), Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. More information here.
- Atrial fibrillation – diagnosis [online], Cardiology Channel US. More information here.
- Stewart, S., Murphy, N. F., Walker, A., McGuire, A. & McMurray, J. J. [online], ‘Cost of an emerging epidemic: an economic analysis of atrial fibrillation in the UK’, in Heart, vol. 90, no. 3, pp. 286–92. More information here.
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