Utilising biomarkers to predict right heart maladaptive phenotype: a step toward precision medicine
Soni Savai Pullamsetti1,2, Khodr Tello2, Werner Seeger1,2,3
1Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Member of the Cardio-Pulmonary Institute (CPI), Bad Nauheim, Germany.
The European Respiratory Journal
|April 9, 2021
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