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Arrhythmias in congenital heart disease: a position paper of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC), and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Working Group on Grown-up Congenital Heart Disease, endorsed by Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), Pediatric and Congenital Electrophysiology Society (PACES), Asia-Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS), and Latin American Society of Electrophysiology and Cardiac Stimulation (SOLAECE)

Hernández-Madrid A., Paul T., Abrams D., Aziz P.F., Blom N.A., Chen J., Chessa M., Combes N., Dagres N., Diller G., Ernst S., Giamberti A., Hebe J., Janousek J., Kriebel T., Moltedo J., Moreno J., Peinado R., Pison L., Rosenthal E., Skinner J.R., Zeppenfeld K.

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