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Benefits of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in an Asynchronous Heart Failure Model Induced by Left Bundle Branch Ablation and Rapid Pacing
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Association of Cheyne-Stokes respiration and cardiac cachexia in congestive heart failure

Gerrit C Hagenah, Claus Luers, Denise Prager

    International Journal of Cardiology
    |December 23, 2008
    PubMed

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