Myocardial perfusion imaging analysis in patients with regurgitant valvular heart disease

Manavjot Sidhu1, Albert K Chan, Anand Chockalingam

  • 1Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans' Hospital, Columbia, MO, USA.

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