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Predictive value of preoperative left ventricular ejection fraction and functional class for mortality and morbidity

B Olshansky1, E A Telfer, A B Curtis

  • 1Division of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL 60153, USA. bolshan@luc.edu

The American Journal of Cardiology
|June 17, 2000
PubMed
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