The Sicilian gambit. A new approach to the classification of antiarrhythmic drugs based on their actions on arrhythmogenic mechanisms. Task Force of the Working Group on Arrhythmias of the European Society of Cardiology.

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• Publication year

  1991

• Venue

  Circulation

• Publication date

  1991-10-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1161/01.CIR.84.4.1831PMID 1717173
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