In Tolkien’s monumental trilogy, following the gifting of the rings of power, a verse
was written among the Free Peoples that contained the above phrase about a uniting
power that ruled all the other rings---Could there be a uniting principle that brings
together many of the diverse forms of atrial fibrillation (AF) thought to be pathophysiologically
unrelated?
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Article Info
Publication History
Published online: January 22, 2021
Accepted:
January 18,
2021
Received:
January 12,
2021
Footnotes
See article by McIntyre et al., pages 803–809 of this issue.
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