Role of atrial fibrillation burden in assessing thromboembolic risk.

Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol

From the Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (P.Z., J.W.W., E.R.E.); Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL (R.S.P.); and Division of Cardiology, Hackensack Universit

Published: December 2014


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