Amiodarone Lung Injury: Another Heart Failure Mimic?
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عنوان ژورنال: Congestive Heart Failure
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1527-5299,1751-7133
DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-5299.2002.00759.x