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Nature Medicine  3, 385 - 386 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nm0497-385

Fibrillation, chaos and clinical control

Max J. Lab

Department of Physiology, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, London W6 8RF, UK

The finding that cardiac fibrillation is a chaotic process may help in the design of new anti-arrhythmic drugs and pacemakers.

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