Individualized cardiac resynchronization therapy: current status
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Cardiac resynchronization therapy – current status and perspectives
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عنوان ژورنال: Research Reports in Clinical Cardiology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1179-8475
DOI: 10.2147/rrcc.s50541