1 Cardiac Arrhythmia Service, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Boston, USA.
2 Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St David's Medical Center, 1015 East 32nd Street, Suite 506, Austin, TX 78705, USA; Department of Cardiology, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
3 Fundation Cardio Infantil, Bogota, Colombia.
4 Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St David's Medical Center, 1015 East 32nd Street, Suite 506, Austin, TX 78705, USA.
5 Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St David's Medical Center, 1015 East 32nd Street, Suite 506, Austin, TX 78705, USA; Division of Cardiology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA; Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA; EP Services, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
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