Porcelain atrium: Rheumatic heart disease
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Coconut Atrium in Long-Standing Rheumatic Valvular Heart Disease
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Funding J.L.H. is funded by a British Heart Foundation Clinical Research Training Fellowship (FS/10/65/28404).This study is also partly fundedby theTechnology Strategy Board/Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Magnetic Resonance Guided Therapy of Cardiac Arrhythmia (MaRGiTA) grant (TS/G002142/1) and The Centre of Excellence in Medical Engineering funded by the Wellcome Tr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Cardiology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0828-282X
DOI: 10.1016/s0828-282x(06)70909-6