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Is Left Ventricular Stroke Work Index Useful in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit?
Katherine A A Clark1, Robert L McNamara1
1Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
Circulation. Cardiovascular Imaging
|November 16, 2020
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