Association between plasma catecholamine concentration and mortality in hospitalized adults with COVID-19: a
Basmah Safdar1, Gary Desir2, Bin Zhou3
1Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. Basmah.safdar@yale.edu.
Critical Care (London, England)
|May 9, 2025
Abstract
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