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Three Different Imaging Modalities of a Patient with the Aortic Coarctation
The patient was a 19 year-old woman with the diagnosis of resistant hypertension, although she was under treatment of three classes of anti-hypertensive drugs (beta blocker, angiotensin receptor blocker, diuretic) for more than one year. In physical examination there was only a significant difference between the systolic blood pressure of upper and lower extremities (200 vs. 120 mmHg), without ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Cardiology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0160-9289
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960271114