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Marco Bernardi1, Luigi Spadafora1, Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai2,3
1Department of Clinical, Internal Medicine, Anesthesiology and Cardiovascular Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology
|October 10, 2022
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