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Ioannis T Farmakis1, Eftychia Demerouti2, Panagiotis Karyofyllis3

  • 1Cardiology Department, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, PC 54621 Thessaloniki, Greece.

Journal of Clinical Medicine
|July 2, 2021
PubMed

Keywords:
echocardiographypulmonary arterial hypertensionright ventricle

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