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Diastolic function study with conventional and pulsed tissue Doppler echocardiography imaging in acromegalic patients

Carolina G S Leães1, Caroline K Kramer, Julia F S Pereira-Lima

  • 1Discipline of Endocrinology, Medicine Faculty, Fundação Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.)
|April 28, 2009
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