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Capital University, Beijing, China, Deaconess Hospital, 311 Straight St, Cincinnati, OH 45219

(Email: randallwolf@dataquesthealthcare.com).

Four years ago, while visiting The University of Oklahoma and performing and demonstrating minimally invasive pulmonary vein isolation to Dr Jackman and the Oklahoma arrhythmia team, I toured the Oklahoma arrhythmia center. Purely by chance, we observed Dr Ben Scherlag performing ganglionic plexi (GP) ablation in the canine model using alcohol injections into the canine fat pads. Ben was then kind enough to accept an invitation to visit us in Cincinnati with his equipment, where we performed the first ever GP testing and isolation in a human during a minimally invasive pulmonary vein isolation procedure (MiniMaze). We . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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