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Integration of Brain Tissue Saturation Monitoring in Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Patients with Heart Failure
Published on: October 1, 2019
Failure of plasma brain natriuretic peptide to identify left ventricular systolic dysfunction in the community
D J Hetmanski1, N J Sparrow, S Curtis
1Cardiovascular Medicine, University Hospital, Nottingham, UK.
Heart (British Cardiac Society)
|September 20, 2000
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