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María de Miguel Álava1, María Plaza Martín1, Alexander Stepanenko2
1Instituto de Ciencias del Corazón (ICICOR), Valladolid, Spain; Departamento de Cardiología, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain.
Revista Espanola De Cardiologia (English Ed.)
|October 13, 2022
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