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eComment: Even the elderly post-CABG patients have a better HRQoL postoperatively

Efstratios Apostolakis1, Anastasios Merkouris, Ioanna Koniari

  • 1Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, University Hospital of Patras, 22500 Rion Patras, Greece.

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
|July 31, 2008
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