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Problems of coronary flow reserve

J I Hoffman1

  • 1Department of Pediatrics and Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA. jhoffman@pedcard.ucsf.edu

Annals of Biomedical Engineering
|January 6, 2001
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