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Francesco Formica1,2, Oluwaseun Adebayo Bamodu3,4,2, Serena Mariani1

  • 1Cardiac Surgery Unit, San Gerardo Hospital, Department of Medicine and Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy.

International Journal of Cardiology. Heart & Vasculature
|June 16, 2017
PubMed

Keywords:
Acute coronary syndromeAortic operationCoronary artery diseaseVascular tone and reactivity

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