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Author Spotlight: Using Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Comprehensive Evaluation of the Abdominal Aorta
Published on: September 8, 2023
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Why should ascending aorta dimension be measured and how should it be normalized in hypertensive patients?
1Internal Medicine and Cardiology Section, Air Force Centre of Aerospace Medicine, Flughafenstrasse 1, 51147 Cologne, Germany.
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
|August 2, 2023
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