Powerlessness of a Number: Why Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Matters Less for Sudden Cardiac Death Risk
Katherine C Wu1, Hugh Calkins2
1From the Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. kwu@jhmi.edu.
Circulation. Cardiovascular Imaging
|October 13, 2016
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