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Refractory Coronary Stent Thrombosis in a Patient with Chronic Immune Thrombocytopenia on Eltrombopag
Tse-Wei Chen1, Ting-Chun Huang1,2, Chen-Wei Huang1
1Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University.
Acta Cardiologica Sinica
|September 29, 2021
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